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Cup, coffee and saucer
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Coffee cup and saucer, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze, slightly discoloured on the underside of the saucer; the cup standing on a stepped foot, tub-shaped sides swelling to the lip, standard high kidney-shaped and scrolled handle; shallow saucer with flat unglazed base; the cup decorated with a gilt line to the foot, and painted with two bouquets of garden flowers, gilt line at the lip, deckelled on the interior, with band of gilt husks below, single pink rose painted at the bottom of the cup; the saucer painted with three similar bouquets of flowers around a central rose, deckel-edge gilt line at the rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32312
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818-1820
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.3
diam
(cm): 7.3
l(in) handle to lip:9
l(in)
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
l(in) handle to lip:3 9/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 13.7
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
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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