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Dish, dessert
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Shell-shaped dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, good clear translucency and almost colourless lustrous glaze; folded triangular handle, up-curving rim moulded in four large and four small lobes; painted with a small brightly coloured bouquet of stylised flowers in the centre and with three similar bouquets on the rim, one of which includes a 'bearded tulip', three smaller bouquets between, and a scattering of floral sprigs and insects, line of deckel-edged gilding to the rim, the handle decorated with gilt scrolls and rays.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32341
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818-1820
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5
Length
(cm): 21.5
Width
(cm): 19.6
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 8
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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