Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee and saucer

Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical sides and ear-shaped handle; to the front of the body an oval reserve finely painted in polychrome enamels with a seascape with shipping, the reserve enclosed by a border of gilt beads with puce ribbons, around the rest of the exterior sides two gilt sprigs, a border of gilt arcading to the lip-rim, the handle partially gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, inset base and flaring sides; to the well a circular reserve finely painted in polychrome enamels with a seascape and shipping, the reserve enclosed by a border of gilt beads with puce ribbons, around the sides of the well four gilt sprigs, a border of gilt arcading to the rim.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36410

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Mainz, Germany
Period: 1765-1796

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 5.9
diam (cm): 6.9
Width (cm): 8.5
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 2.9
diam (cm): 10.8
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 4

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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