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Cup, breakfast and saucer
Baxter, Thomas (junior) (1782 - 1821)
Breakfast cup and saucer, soft-paste ('duck egg') porcelain, the cup standing on a foot ring, with curved sides and slightly everted rim, loop handle with inner spur, the saucer with slightly spreading foot ring and plain curved sides; both cup and saucer enamelled with named birds, a blue hawk and chatterer on the cup, a heron on the saucer, with gilded border of continuous scrolls on the saucer.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38268
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Baxter, Thomas (junior)
Acquisition
Accepted in lieu of inheritance tax, 29/3/2006
Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Tax and allocated to Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7.1
Width
(cm): 12.7
diam
(cm): 11
Height
(cm): 2.7
diam
(cm): 16.1
Height
(in): 2
Width
(in): 5
diam
(in): 4
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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