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Card tray
Card Tray, rectangular with a waved everted rim elaborately moulded with flutes, scrolls and shells, small double shell scroll handles, sides encrusted with shells, coral and seaweed, standing on a shallow foot rim; the centre painted with a view of the Menai suspension bridge, from the Anglesey side, rocks, a cottage and figures in the foreground, looking back towards the mainland, grey clouds rolling across a blue sky above, the frame of shells etc also elaborately and naturalistically coloured; the handles and rim gilded.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30148
Creation/Production
Chamberlain, Worcester
Gastineau, Henry
Barber, Thomas
Date: 1840-1845 –
Acquisition
Gift, 18/7/1939
Given by Lady Tate
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.5
Length
(cm): 34
Width
(cm): 23.1
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 13
Width
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
bone china
Location
In store
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