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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; cup standing on rounded foot rim, London shape, with a curvaceous ogee handle; saucer standing on a rounded foot rim with curved spreading sides; painted with set pattern 471, - a wide border with shaped areas of purple seeded salmon pink, with pale underglaze blue and gilt leaf edges, alternating with black seeded green areas with iron red and white leaf shaped edges; a stylised red peony in the centre with green, underglaze blue, and gilt foliage; inside cup lip a pale underglaze blue border with gilt triangles; gilt handle, gilt lip, and gilt band to foot rim.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31269
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Acquisition
Purchase, 21/10/1986
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7.2
diam
(cm): 7.9
l(cm) handle to lip:9.7
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 13/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 14.7
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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