Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish

Caughley (Factory)

Dish, soaprock porcelain, short foot-rim, curving sides, and spreading rim, fluting around the sides of the well and a shaped edge to the rim; the sides of the well and the rim covered with a powder blue ground against which is reserved to the well a circular panel painted in underglaze blue with a Chinese-style landscape with pagodas and trees on islands and a figure in a boat, further oval and wedge shaped reserves around the sides of the well, the wedge-shaped panels painted with chinoiseries, the oval panels painted with flowers, to the underside of the rim three long foliate sprays in underglaze blue.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 37142

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Shropshire
Period: 1775-1785

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.3
diam (cm): 19
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 7

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Underglaze blue
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soaprock porcelain

Location

In store
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