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Toilet pot and cover
Toilet pot, slightly greyish hard-paste porcelain, inset base, cylindrical sides, rounded domed cover with to the centre a ball finial; finely painted in puce with around the exterior body of the toilet pot and around the top of the cover panoramic landscapes with buildings, hillocks and trees, gilt lines around the exterior lip-rim of the toilet pot and the rim of the cover, a gilt top to the top of the finial.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35809
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1785 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9
diam
(cm): 6.7
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
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
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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