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Four tea cups and saucers, hard paste porcelain, egg shell thin, relief-moulded with shell pattern and covered in iridescent lustrous glaze.
Private:
Egg shell thin tea cup, yellowish in colour, tapering to narrow concave foot, with seaweed shaped loop handle, diverging at the top into two fronds. Exterior sides moulded in textured vertical panels resembling side of a sea urchin or a shell, with undulating rim at top. Whole covered in mother-of-pearl type iridescent lustre glaze. Slightly thicker bodied flat saucer, edges curving upwards with everted rim. Upper surface moulded with narrow and wide textured shell type panels, radiating out from plain central well for cup. Undulating rim.
Technique: relief-moulding
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: hard paste
Material: parian
Material: lustreware
Material: lustre glaze
cup & saucer by McBirney, David, and Co., Belleek, 1869=1875 (circa) (design registered 22.2.1869), (1917.526/8). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.977 | Go to resource |
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