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Sugar box
Sugar box with cover, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a foot rim, squat, elongated, octagonal body with bulging sides, domed cover with pagoda-shaped finial; sides decorated alternately with sprays of flowers and fish in iron-red monochrome, two concentric lines to shoulders, geomentric border to cover with four ellipses, panels of foliate decoration to upper half, bottom of inside decorated with asymetrical shape (perhaps a bird).
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33255
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.6
Length
(cm): 12
Width
(cm): 9
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 4
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case J
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