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Cup and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, both with foot ring, cup sides curving gently outwards, simple loop handle. Decorated with Noah's Ark pattern - painted in purple lustre reserved with white raindrops (excluding cup handle, bands around both rims and at cup foot). Well of saucer transfer-printed in black and over-painted in sepia with water and hills, a rising sun, and a black cloud and rain. Narrow band of sepia enamel over black strokes along either side of cup handle. Lustre very rubbed around saucer well.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33004
Creation/Production
Brain, E. A. Ltd (Foley)
Knight, Dame Laura
Date: 1934 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 10/6/1997
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.6
Length
(cm): 8
Width
(cm): 6
Height
(in): 2
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 2
Height
(cm): 2.1
Depth
(cm): 12
h(in) sight size:13/16
h(in)
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
lustred
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
Material
bone china
Location
Gallery 22A, North : Bay 06
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