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Cup, coffee
Coffee cup, mixed or duck egg paste, with a slight green translucency; standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape tapering and angled sides, thick curvaceous ogee handle; decorated on the interior with a broad band of underglaze blue with two groups of red and white chrysanthemum heads and gilt scrolls and foliage between two oval reserves of flowers on a white ground, the exterior with two pale blue pierced rocks and a bird and flowers and foliage above an oriental fence. Swansea set pattern 219.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32579
Acquisition
Gift, 20/1/1995
Given by Vernon D. Thorne
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7
Depth
(cm): 7.8
Length
(cm): 9.6
Height
(cm): 2
Depth
(in): 3
Length
(in): 3
Techniques
painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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