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Plate

Nantgarw China Works (Painter)
Oldfield (Painter)
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Plate, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze with grit specks on the upper surface at 6 and 10 o clock, the rim moulded in six small and six large lobes; decorated with a gilt line round the foot ring, the rim gilt, with a narrow white line between an inner band of tooled tongue and shell gilding, uneven enamelled blue ground to the cavetto painted in yellow ochre with, at the top, foliate scrolls issuing from a patera and, at the bottom, similar scrolls flanking an urn, the centre reserved with an oval containing a 3/4 length Bacchic figure of Comus, turning to right, a staff on his shoulder and head wreathed vine, dressed in a leopard skin and purple cloak, holding out a glass and metal goblet of red wine to a seated female figure in conventional Regency dress, comprising a white gown, violet overgarment, and red cloak, trees in a landscape behind.


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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 32316

Historical Associations

Association Type: Provenance

Creation/Production

Nantgarw China Works
1813 - 1822
Oldfield
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Painter
Place: Nantgarw
Period: 1818-1820

Acquisition

Bequest, 26/5/1994

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.2
diam (cm): 21.2
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 8

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Jiggered
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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Tags


  • Applied Art
  • Ceramics

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