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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; cup standing on a foot rim curving into a double-ogee curved profile, and a wavy lip; ear-shaped loop handle; the saucer on a foot rim with spreading sides; both moulded with a narrow border of basket weave above spiral gadrooning; both enamelled in sepia with small sprays of flowers; gilt leaf on handle, and gilt bands to cup and saucer lip.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30922
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 1905
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.5
diam
(cm): 7.9
l(cm) handle to lip:9.5
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 3/4
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3.1
diam
(cm): 14.1
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
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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