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Cup, coffee and saucer

Williams-Ellis, Susan

Portmeirion Potteries Ltd

Cup, coffee and saucer
Image: By kind permission of Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. © Unknown. If you have any information that may assist us in identifying a © holder, please contact images@museumwales.ac.uk
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Coffee cup and saucer, white earthenware body with a clear glaze, 'Cylinder' shape, the cup with a cylindrical body, the top of the handle is square and level with the rim, gently curving downards and attached to the lower third of the body, plain rim, the saucer with foot ring and and sharply upturned sides; the body of the cup transfer-printed with the 'Magic Garden' pattern in black, blue, turquoise and green under the glaze with a freeform pattern of stylised, fantastical plants, insects and birds against a starry sky.


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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 39277

Creation/Production

Williams-Ellis, Susan
Portmeirion Potteries Ltd

Acquisition

Purchase, 15/9/2011

Measurements

Height (cm): 8.5
Height (in): 3
Width (cm): 6.2
Width (in): 2
l(cm) handle to lip:9.2
l(cm)
l(in) handle to lip:3 5/8
l(in)
diam (cm): 13.5
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Slip-cast
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Earthenware

Location

In store
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Tags


  • Applied Art
  • Bird
  • Ceramics
  • Earthenware
  • English Earthenware
  • Plant
  • Stars
  • Williams-Ellis, Susan

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