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Dish, dessert
Dessert dish, square, Swansea 'duck egg' paste, greyish translucency, slight green tinge to the pitted glaze, prominent foot rim, moulded with eight large and eight small lobes; centre painted in polychrome enamels with a lattice-woven basket, overflowing with garden flowers, on a background of earth, grass and flowering plants; cavetto with a border of scrolled and seeded gilding, rim painted with three butterflies within a gilt dentil border.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32288
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.1
Length
(cm): 24.1
Width
(cm): 23.9
Height
(in): 1
Length
(in): 9
Width
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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