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Tea bowl and saucer
Tea bowl and saucer in hard-paste porcelain, both with fluted sides and scalloped rims; the cup and tea bowl both have scolling borders at the inner rim in overglaze red enamel with gilding, both are painted with similar variations on the 'two quail' theme with quails in black, brown and red enamels, and Kakeimon style flowers in puce, blue and yellow with green leaves, including a large yellow flower behind a stylised scholars' rock.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32122
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1740-1750
Acquisition
Gift, 6/3/1922
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Depth
(cm): 7.3
Depth
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 4.6
Height
(in): 2
Depth
(cm): 12.3
Depth
(in): 4
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Gallery 11A : Case 02
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