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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Sugar bowl and cover, soft-paste 'duck-egg' porcelain, greenish translucency and a grey-green tinge to the glaze; rectangular 'London' shape with rounded corners, pronounced mould lines, two up-turned loop handles, rectangular domed cover with a flattened top and grooved pyramid finial. Decorated on each side with an on-glaze transfer-print comprising a seated Chinese figure, surrounded by five standing figures of attendants within a landscape of buildings and trees, including a river with European style houses in the background, all overpainted in blue, green, red, purple, brown, orange, grey and black enamels, gilt border at the shoulders of scrolled reserves containing small iron red landscapes alternating with larger polychrome scenes of birds on branches; gilt line to the foot, handles gilded; the cover has the same border, and also bears on each side a bird on a branch, the finial gilded.
