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Cup, breakfast and saucer
Swansea China Works
(Decorator)
Baxter, Thomas (junior)
(Decorator)
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
1816-1818 / 1816-1818
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Decorator
Period:
1816-1818
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 cup
Width
(cm): 12.7 cup
diam
(cm): 11 cup
Height
(cm): 2.7 saucer
diam
(cm): 16.1 saucer
Height
(in): 2 13/16 cup
Width
(in): 5 cup
diam
(in): 4 5/16 cup
Height
(in): 1 1/16 saucer
diam
(in): 6 5/16 saucer
Material
Soft-paste porcelain
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