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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain; cup standing on a straight sided foot rim; curved sides, slightly flared at lip, with a ring and scroll handle; saucer on a foot rim curving into slightly rounded sides; the cup painted in sepia enamel, a landscape with a tree in the foreground right and a cottage behind a tree in the middle distance; gilt band to the foot rim, and to the lip's interior and exterior; the saucer painted in sepia enamel, a central landscape of a tree to the foreground left, and a ruin on a hill in the middle distance; gilt band to the lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31169
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height (cm): 5.9
diam (cm): 8.7
(): 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): 3.2
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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