Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and high sides, elaborate angular handle 'alla Napoletana'; painted in polychrome enamels with touches of gilt with around the exterior an 'a tulipano' design of stylized oriental flowers featuring a prominent iron-red tulip-like flower.
Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; painted in polychrome enamels with touches of gilt with to the well an 'a tulipano' design as on the cup.
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Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7.3
diam
(cm): 6.5
Width
(cm): 8.5
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.5
diam
(cm): 12.9
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
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press-moulded
forming
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assembled
forming
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enamelled
decoration
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gilded
decoration
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glazed
decoration
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Material
hard-paste porcelain