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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup, very fine white hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical form with plain loop handle; decorated with around the exterior sides an elaborate pattern of renaissance-style scolls in puce, purple, blue, green and yellow enamels and gilt, against this is reserved to the front of the cup an oval panel with gilt frame and painted with a yellow urn on a pale blue ground, the handle picked out in gilt, gilt lines around the base and lip-rim. Saucer, very fine white hard-paste porcelain, inset base and straight flaring sides; decorated with around the sides of the well an elaborate border as on the cup, a gilt foliate motif to the centre of the well, a gilt line around the rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36988
Creation/Production
Nyon Porcelain Factory
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.3
diam
(cm): 6.2
Width
(cm): 8.4
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.7
diam
(cm): 11.9
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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