Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Moon bird

Campbell, James (Maker)

Dish, red earthenware coated in white slip, rounded rectangular shape, its slab top depressed in the centre and overlapping the vertical slightly in-curving sides; painted in the centre with a landscape at night in underglaze colours, predominantly blue, brown, green and black, featuring hills with a crow in fields in the foreground and a bird in flight over the sea visible between them, the moon and a tree on the left reserved in white.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A(L) 1494

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Maker
Place: Manorbier, Pembrokeshire
Period: 2006

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.4
Width (cm): 34.8
Depth (cm): 30.4
Height (in): 2
Width (in): 13
d(in) frame:12
d(in)

Techniques

Slab-built
Forming
Applied Art
Slip-coated
Decoration
Applied Art
Painted
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Earthenware

Location

On Display

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