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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, greyish blue hard-paste porcelain, with a brownish translucency; cylindrical can-shaped cup standing on a shallow foot rim, ear-shaped handle; conventional dish-shaped saucer, slight recessed ring within the shallow foot rim; both decorated with an underglaze blue ground reserved with red and yellow peonies amid realistically painted foliage edged with gilding, and with gilt sprays; narrow gilt band at the base and lip of the cup and round the rim of the saucer; interior of cup plain except for gilt line at lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30330
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/10/1991
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6
Length
(cm): 8.9
Width
(cm): 7
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 3
Depth
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hybrid-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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