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Plate, dessert
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot, plain everted rim, painted in the centre with primroses, bluebells and lily of the valley amid grasses, the rim decorated with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between two gilt lines.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33734
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Unknown
Date: 1816-1817 –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.4
diam
(cm): 23.4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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