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Cover, hard-paste porcelain, round high-domed helmet-shaped form, to the top a modelled figure of a crouching semi-naked young boy holding an oval shield; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the sides of the cover regularly spaced sprays of roses, the figure painted in naturalistic enamels with a drape with a red floral pattern and green lining, the shield edged in gilt, around the lower sides of the cover a border of regular foliate festoons in gilt, a heavy gilt band around the rim of the cover. The rim of the cover chipped.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35662
Creation/Production
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18
diam
(cm): 15
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
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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