Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Teapot

Teapot and cover, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a flat base, baluster body, wishbone handle with thumb piece, moulded up-curved spout with moulded leaf decoration, slightly domed cover with bud finial; body and cover decorated with incised, blackened lines, on one side with a tree stump with two sprouting branches, bird in flight above, opposite a tree stump with two sprouting branches, a bird swooping down onto a branch and an insect to the left, plant with flowers under spout, cover decorated with two insects opposite each other.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33265

Creation/Production

of Hildesheim, 1704-1779. Busch was an amateur Hausmaler.
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Decorator
Place: Germany
Period: 1746 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 16/12/1919

Measurements

Height (cm): 11.3
Length (cm): 17.4
Width (cm): 10.1
Height (in): 4
Length (in): 6
Width (in): 4

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Diamond engraved
Engraved
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

On Display

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