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Cup and saucer
Cup, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, cylindrical sides curving inwards towards the base, plain loop handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body scattered sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers, to the exterior lip-rim a feathered blue border with a gilt edge, a gilt line around the foot-rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the interior of the saucer scattered sprays and sprigs of naturalistic flowers, to the rim a feathered blue border with a gilt edge.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35911
Creation/Production
Sèvres
VIEILLARD, André-Vincent
Date: 1785 –
Acquisition
Bequest, 1898
Rhoddwyd gan / Bequeathed by James Pyke Thompson, 1898
Measurements
Height
(cm): 6
diam
(cm): 7
Width
(cm): 9.1
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 14.3
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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