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Dish, dessert
Nantgarw China Works (1813 - 1822)
Boat-shaped dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, good clear translucency and a lustrous glaze, collecting inside the foot rim, and with pin holes and minor flaws; oval form, lobed rim with extended crenellated handles; the exterior decorated with a line of deckel-edged gilding at the foot and lip, and painted with four stylised arrangements of flowers, interspersed with four smaller sprays. These four groups of flowers are repeated, two of them twice, inside the rim, with six smaller sprays of flowers below, and a central bouquet; the handles decorated with foliate scrolls and seeded panels of gilding.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32325
Creation/Production
Nantgarw China Works
Date: 1818 ca.
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.6
Length
(cm): 36
Width
(cm): 26.4
Height
(in): 3
Length
(in): 14
Width
(in): 10
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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