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Dish, sweetmeat
Sweetmeat dish, cream-coloured earthenware, standing on an oval domed slightly fluted foot, roughly oval body with curving spreading sides, the rim pierced with foliate and diamond-shape perforations, around the upper interior sides of the dish raised moulded foliate festoons issuing from moulded tied ribbons, a shaped edge to the rim, to either end of the dish are twin horizontal loop handles; a stylized floral spray in puce to the well of the dish, the moulded ribbons painted in puce, oil-gilding to the raised festoons and handles and to the rim of the dish where it is rather worn.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35616
Acquisition
Purchase, 1902
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.6
Length
(cm): 14.2
Width
(cm): 10.8
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 5
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
pierced
decoration
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
oil-gilded
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
enamel
oil-gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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