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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, soft-paste porcelain; the cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape; the saucer set on a rounded foot rim with curved spreading sides; both painted with set pattern 478; an underglaze blue vitruvian scroll, lined with underglaze blue, gilt, and spotted green, on a pink ground; each scroll issuing a gilt cornucopia, above a band of seeded green with alternating red and gilt stylised flowers and an underglaze blue and gilt C-scroll; a gilt band to the foot rim and lip.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31222
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 1909
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.7
diam
(cm): 7.9
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(cm): 14.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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