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Cup, coffee
Coffee cup, soft-paste 'duck egg' porclain, greenish translucency; the cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape tapering and angled sides, thick curvaceous ogee handle; decorated on the interior with a broad band of underglaze blue reserved with two ovals of flowers on a white ground amid red and white chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage, salmon pink band embellished with gilt foliage below, and on the exterior with an oriental landscape comprising two pierced rocks, a bird, flowers, foliage and a fence, an underglaze blue band embellished with gilt foliage below.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32382
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1815-1825
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.8
diam
(cm): 7.6
l(cm) handle to lip:9.3
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 5/8
l(in)
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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