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Stand for sauce tureen
Stand for cream tureen, soft-paste 'duck-egg' porcelain with a pale yellowish-green translucency; standing on a straight sided foot rim, cushion moulded and slightly curved spreading sides; lobed lip with six large and six small lobes; edge moulded with c-scrolls and ribbon-tied flowers and foliage; painted in polychrome enamels in the centre with a spray of wild roses, and six sprigs around the edge , including forget-me-not, wild strawberries, and buttercups; elaborate gilt border to the cavetto, a wide band of a dotted trellis, reserved with demi lunes enclosing crosses, with feather motifs and ivy pendants; plain gilt band to lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33650
Acquisition
Bequest, 1898
Rhoddwyd gan / Bequeathed by James Pyke Thompson, 1898
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 19.8
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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