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Pot, chocolate and cover
Chocolate pot, hard-paste porcelain, ovoid body with short curving spout, a cylindrical socket for the handle issues from the body at rightangles to the spout, feathered moulding around the base of the socket, domed cover with finial in the form of a flower bud and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with a floral bouquet to one side of the body and scattered floral sprigs around the rest of the body and cover, around the shoulder of the pot and the sides of the cover a festoon border with a pink ribbon entwined with laurel leaves, gilt lines around the upper rim of the pot and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle socket edged in gilt, the finial painted in naturalistic enamels.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36708
Creation/Production
Gotha Porcelain Factory
Acquisition
Gift
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17
Length
(cm): 14
Width
(cm): 13.7
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 5
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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