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Dish, dessert
Producer: Swansea China Works
Producer: Unknown
Oval dessert dish, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot rim, moulded in six large and six small lobes, painted in the centre with a yellow daffodil and sweet peas amid grasses, decorated below the rim with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between two gilt lines. Two pad marks by foot rim.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33717
Creation/Production
Swansea China Works
Role: Production
Unknown
Role: Factory
Date: 1816-1817 –
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height: 4.2cm
l(cm):29.3
Width: 20.5cm
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
Gallery 17 : Case 14
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