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Plate, dessert
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot, plain everted rim, painted in the centre with yellow cowslips (Primula veris) and pink ragged robin (Lychnis flos - cuculi) amid grasses, the rim decorated with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between two gilt lines, rather worn..
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33737
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Unknown
Date: 1816-1817 –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.7
diam
(cm): 23.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
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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