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Tea bowl and saucer
Tea bowl, greyish hybrid-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with around the centre of the exterior body a border of rococo scrolls on which stand figures, an urn and pillars, a gilt edge to the lip-rim. Saucer, greyish hybrid-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with to the centre of the well a design of rococo scrolls on which stand a figure, a winged mythological creature and a parrot, a gilt edge to the rim. The foot-rim chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35800
Acquisition
Gift, 21/4/1921
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.3
diam
(cm): 7.2
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 2.4
diam
(cm): 11.9
Height
(in): 15
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hybrid-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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