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Teapot and cover

Swansea China Works

Teapot from a cabaret service, duck-egg soft-paste porcelain, circular foot, ovoid body, concentric rings around foot and base of body, high collar neck slightly cushion shaped with an everted rim, recessed shallow-domed cover with a entwined dolphin finial, small spout with basal flutes and serpent-head mouth, complex moulded handle with a grooved body rising from a basal husk, and terminating in a scroll thumbpiece and paterae and second husk at body junction; painted in enamels with repeating pattern of a rose on gilt moss repeated three times to either side of body, and three times on cover and interspersed with small gilt stars; gilt scroll around neck, gilt lines around foot, collar and rim, gilt deckel edge inside rim, gilt detailing on moulding of spout, handle finial, etc.

Teapot and cover
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 30924

Creation/Production

Swansea China Works

Acquisition

Gift, 9/2/1951

Measurements

Height (cm): 13.1
Length (cm): 14.6
Width (cm): 9.5
Height (in): 5
Length (in): 5
Width (in): 3

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soft-paste porcelain

Location

On Display

Categories

Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art
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