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Egg-cup
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Egg-cup, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze. Standing on a stepped foot, bell-shaped body and everted lip. Decorated with a gilt band at the foot and lip, the lower part of the exterior white, with a gilt band of loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with two oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads; the interior with a gilt line at the lip above a band of pendant loops, rays and dots, and painted with garden flowers at the bottom.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32307
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818 ca
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.3
diam
(cm): 5.6
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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