Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Cup, tea and saucer
Tea cup and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, cup, hemispherical with floriate C-scroll handle; painted in polychrome enamels with an exotic bird in red, blue, yellow, brown and puce standing on a pile of stones, a branch with foliage and nuts issuing to right, and another with red and yellow pods to left, gilt line to lip and gilding to handle, green `ermine tail' painted inside. Saucer standing on a shallow footring, spreading sides; painted with a long-tailed exotic bird in a similar palette seated on a branch issuing from a pile of stones amid polychrome flowers and foliage, gilt line to rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30084
Creation/Production
Loosdrecht
Date: 1775 ca.
Acquisition
Gift, 13/9/1921
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.5
Length
(cm): 9.5
Width
(cm): 8.1
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.4
Depth
(cm): 13.3
Height
(in): 0
Depth
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.