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Plate
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, good clear translucency, and lustrous glaze with slight green tinge; standing on a shallow straight sided foot rim, the lip moulded in six large and six small lobes and with the standard Nantgarw moulding of C-scrolls, ribbon tied-foliage wreaths and flowers; painted in the centre with an exotic pigeon-like bird with purple body, head and feet, green barred wings and brown tail, in a landscape flanked by flowers and reeds and with a faintly painted tree in the background; six sprays of flowers and fruit around the edge, including a bird on a rose spray and a butterfly with a spray of red currants; gilt scallop-edged lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32342
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Randall, Thomas Martin
Date: 1818-1820 –
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.1
diam
(cm): 25.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
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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