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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape; thick, curvaceous ogee handle; saucer standing on a rounded foot rim, with slightly curved spreading sides; both transfer printed and infilled with enamel, with the Kingfisher pattern - a blue and pink plumaged kingfisher perched on a tree of stylised peonies in pink and blue, with dark olive foliage; gilt lip to cup and saucer, and gilt line on handle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31209
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7
diam
(cm): 7.7
l(cm) handle to lip:9.3
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 5/8
l(in)
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 14.3
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
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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