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Dish, dessert
Dessert dish, rectangular, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain with a green translucency; standing on a shaped rectangular foot rim, curving into rounded, flared sides; a shaped lip, each edge consisting of two concave curves, with rounded, notched corners; twig handles with raised foliate terminals; decorated with set pattern 164, or the 'Mandarin' pattern; transfer-printed and infilled with enamels, in the 'famille rose' palette - a village scene of a seated mandarin and others in front of an oriental house; a gilt scrolled border with small cartouches of landscapes in iron red alternating with larger cartouches of birds perched on branches, against a grey blue sky, above purple trees; gilt handles.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30990
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Purchase, 1900
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6.8
l(cm) handle to handle:32.5
l(cm)
Width
(cm): 21.1
Height
(in): 2
l(in) handle to handle:12 3/4
l(in)
Width
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
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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