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Mustard pot and cover
Mustard pot, hard-paste porcelain, spreading foot, globular body, cylindrical neck, grooved loop handle, round domed cover with a semi-circular indentation to one side of the rim and a ball finial to the centre; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the upper body of the pot a border between two gilt lines of floral garlands between blue rosettes, a looping gilt foliate sprig border around the centre of the body of the pot and the top of the cover, a band of gilt foliage around the neck of the pot, gilt lines around the foot-rim and lip-rim of the pot and around the rim of the cover, the handle and finial painted in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36037
Creation/Production
St Petersburg Imperial Porcelain Factory
Date: 1800-1805
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.8
diam
(cm): 6.8
Width
(cm): 8.6
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
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
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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