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Dish, dessert
Dish, oval, soft-paste porcelain; standing on a straight sided foot rim curving into rounded sides flaring slightly at lip; lobed edge with six large and six small lobes, and a grooved cavetto; transfer printed in underglaze blue with the 'Elephant pattern', - a Chinoiserie style garden with a willow tree, two flowering bushes and an insect, and a fretwork fence enclosing tow elephant shaped bushes; border of trailing stylised flowers and leaves inside a narrow border of quatrefoils within a trellis pattern.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31030
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.3
Width
(cm): 21.4
Length
(cm): 29.3
Height
(in): 1
Width
(in): 8
Length
(in): 11
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
Location
In store
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