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Ice cup and cover

Gardner Porcelain Factory

Ice cup, hard-paste porcelain, standing on spreading foot, curving ogee body, twig handle with moulded leaves around the upper terminal, round domed cover with flat top on which stands a finial modelled in the form of a squirrel with nuts, moulded leaves around the foot and sides of the cup and around the side of the cover; the moulded leaves picked out in green and gilt, around the exterior upper body of the cup and the rim of the cover the ribbon of St. George painted in black and brown with a cross to the front of the cup, gilt lines around the foot-rim and lip-rim of the cup and around the rim and top of the cover, the handle picked out in pink and green enamels and gilt, the squirrel finial painted in naturalistic enamels.

Ice cup and cover
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36031

Creation/Production

Gardner Porcelain Factory

Acquisition

Gift, 30/9/1937
Given by Mrs Joseph E. Davies

Measurements

Height (cm): 11.6
diam (cm): 6.7
Width (cm): 8.7
Height (in): 4
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze

Location

In store

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