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Tea bowl
Tea bowl, soft-paste porcelain, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, rounded curving fluted sides, a scalloped edge to the lip-rim; painted in purple with to one side of the exterior body a scene showing three figures, two standing and one seated on a rectangular block, in a grassy landscape with distant hills and birds flying above, to the other side of the exterior body three small sprigs of flowers, a butterfly to the interior bottom of the bowl, a chocolate edge to the lip-rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34916
Creation/Production
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Date: 1753-1755
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.1
diam
(cm): 8.2
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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