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Cup, tea
Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and high curving sides, loop handle with small thumb-spur; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the body a group of fruit and vegetables, around the rest of the body scattered insects including a butterfly and moth, a gilt line around the lip-rim, the handle picked out in puce.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36973
Creation/Production
Zürich Porcelain Factory
Date: 1770-1780
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.4
diam
(cm): 7.4
Width
(cm): 9.4
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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