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Tea bowl, coffee cup and saucer, soft paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and gilt with butterflies and simple borders.
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Deep, fluted teabowl (27 ribs) with scalloped rim, on tall, slightly tapered footring. Exterior decorated with three gilt star motifs, each with cobalt blue centres, plain gilt band round footring. Interior decorated with cobalt blue and gilt butterfly in well, blue border round rim with scalloped gilt edging which breaks into three floral sprays at intervals reaching downwards. Tall fluted coffee cup (25 ribs) with ear shaped loop handle picked out in gilt. Same decoration as cup with blue border and gilt floral sprays inside rim, plain well. Deep saucer with curved, fluted sides (30 ribs), on straight footring. Blue and gilt border erupting into three gilt floral sprays, alternating with three blue and gilt star motifs positioned around central blue and gilt butterfly.
Technique: painting underglaze
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: soft paste
Material: gilt
Material: cobalt blue
tea bowl & coffee cup & saucer by , c1785, (1920.763/3). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.1803 | Go to resource |
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