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Dish, dessert
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Dessert dish, round, soft-paste porcelain, good clear translucency, lustrous glaze with grit adhering on the underside, bubbled at the shallow foot ring, the rim moulded in six small and six large lobes; painted in the centre with three three pink roses in green foliage, two small butterflies and a ladybird at 6, 9 and 10 o clock to conceal glaze flaws, three further butterflies, a ladybird and a catterpillar on the underside, the rim reserved with six panels each of seven roses on a seeded ground, within elaborate gilt cartouches comprising leaf and foliate scrolls, vines and bell flowers.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32318
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818-1820
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.7
diam
(cm): 26
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 10
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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