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Cup, coffee and saucer
Coffee cup and saucer, soft-paste 'duck egg' porcelain; the cup standing on a foot rim with a curved base and a straight sided bowl; ear-shaped loop handle; the saucer with a foot rim curving into spreading sides; both decorated with an Empire-style pattern of continuous scrolling leaves in green and iron red, with gilt stems bearing pink and blue convolvulus flowers; cup with gilt bands to the foot rim and lip, and gilt edges to the handle; saucer with a circular gilt band in the centre and a gilt band to the lip.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31013
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Date: 1816-1826
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6
diam
(cm): 8
l(cm) handle to lip:10
l(cm)
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 15/16
l(in)
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
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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