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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.

Tea service, Nantgarw
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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

Categories

Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Awaiting publication online (Applied Art)
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