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Plate, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain, with a green translucency; standing on a foot rim curving into flared spreading sides; in the centre, transfer printed in pale sepia enamel with an arrangement of shells, including a large cowrie and cockles, on a bed of seaweed; gilt band to lip, and an inner gilt line around edge of well.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31059
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 20.9
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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