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Cup and saucer
Cup, slightly greyish hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides flaring slightly at the lip-rim, double twisted twig handle with with moulded leaves at the upper terminals, the exterior sides decorated with applied reliefs of classical scenes with figures and chariots; left in the white and glazed. Saucer, slightly greyish hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides, the sides of the well decorated with applied reliefs of shell labels and floral festoons; left in the white and glazed.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35804
Creation/Production
Doccia Porcelain Factory
Date: 1745-1755
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 5.5
diam
(cm): 8.2
Width
(cm): 9.7
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.4
diam
(cm): 13.2
Height
(in): 15
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
applied
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
glaze
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case B
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