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Plate
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Plate, soft-paste porcelain with a buff-tinged white translucency; standing on a tapering foot rim curving into slightly curved spreading sides; lobed lip; painted with four landscape vignettes around the edge and cavetto, - an arched bridge over a river with figures in a boat and mountains in the distance; sailboats and figures; a ruined archway and cottage, overlooking a landscape in the distance; two figures fishing, with a castle and mountains in the distance; a network of gilt branches painted between and around the vignettes, forming a wreath in the centre, gilt lip.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34123
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Acquisition
Bequest, 1898
Rhoddwyd gan / Bequeathed by James Pyke Thompson, 1898
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.2
diam
(cm): 21.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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