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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain; cup standing on a straight sided foot rim, with curved sides slightly flared at lip; a ring and scroll handle; the saucer standing on a foot rim curving into rounded sides; the cup painted with a landscape of a bridge and a house in sepia and olive enamels, gilt band to foot rim, interior and exterior of lip; the saucer painted with a large tree in the foreground left, and a cottage in the middle distance, gilt band to lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31170
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6
diam
(cm): 8.6
l(cm) handle to lip:10.6
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4 3/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
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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