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Cup and saucer
Unknown
(Decorator)
Cup and saucer, porcelain with good whitish translucency, bell-shaped cup on a thick straight-edged foot ring that is very slightly flared and with rounded bottom, high kidney-shaped handle with rounded inner terminals, the saucer with flat slightly concave unglazed base and ogee curved sides; decorated over the glaze inside the cup and saucer with gilt urns amid elaborate scrolling vines, flowers and acanthus, the urns holding enamelled flowers, a further group of flowers in the centre of the saucer and the base of the cup, a gilt leaf tendril round the outside of the cup, gilt rims, foot of the cup and edges of the handle.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36458
Creation/Production
Acquisition
Bequest, 9/12/2002
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.3 (cup)
Height
(cm): 6.2 (cup to to rim)
diam
(cm): 7.1 (cup at rim)
diam
(cm): 4.3 (cup at foot)
Height
(in): 3 9/32 (cup)
Height
(in): 2 7/16 (cup to rim)
diam
(in): 2 13/16 (cup at rim)
diam
(in): 1 11/16 (cup at foot)
Height
(cm): 2.6 (saucer)
diam
(cm): 13.8 (saucer at rim)
diam
(cm): 7.8 (saucer at base)
Height
(in): 1 1/16 (saucer)
diam
(in): 5 7/16 (saucer at rim)
diam
(in): 3 1/16 (saucer at base)
Material
Soft-paste porcelain
Glaze
Enamel
Gilding
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