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Cup and saucer
Cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape, with an ogee handle; saucer with a rounded foot rim and spreading sides; both painted with set pattern 257; pink stylised tulips linked by gilt scrolls and a chain, alternating with a gilt pine cone ornament, all on a buff ground; a gilt border of repeating circles below; inside cup lip a continuous gilt twig/seaweed pattern; a gilt band to the foot rim and lip, and gilt foliate decoration on the handle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31244
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Gift, 3/1933
Given by A.F.T. Fry
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.7
diam
(cm): 8.8
l(cm) handle to lip:10.4
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4 1/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 14.2
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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