Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tureen and cover of soft-paste porcelain with orange-brown translucency; circular, standing on a turned spreading pedestal foot, with curved sides and concave shoulder, plain ear-shaped loop handles; painted with a continuous band of summer flowers, the foot, shoulder and rim edged with gilt lines, a band of gilt husks round the shoulder, the handles gilt. The cover with ogee-curved profile and pineapple finial; painted with a continuous band of summer flowers, a gilt line round the edge, the finial gilt.

This cream tureen was made at the Nantgarw China Works, on the outskirts of Cardiff. Small tureens like this example were used to serve cream at dessert.