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Saucer
Saucer of soft-paste porcelain with creamy translucency and 'moons' (spots of lighter translucency); opaque creamy glaze, crazed next to the rim; standing on a slightly tapering ground footrim, with fluted curved sides and scalloped rim; decorated with two panels each with a scalloped border of red and blue lines and each containing a Meissen-style painted view of a quayside with boats, ruins and buildings across water in the distance; between these a caterpillar, butterfly and fly in the centre, sprays of rose and heartsease on the sides, the rim edged with a chocolate brown line.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34389
Creation/Production
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Date: 1752-1755
Acquisition
Gift, 24/11/1924
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.7
diam
(cm): 12.2
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
glaze
enamel
Location
In store
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