Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, tea and saucer

Teacup and saucer, mixed or duck egg paste, with a pronounced green translucency; the cup standing on a rounded foot rim, London shape tapering and angled sides, thick curvaceous ogee handle; conventional shaped saucer on a shallow foot rim; the cup decorated on the interior with a broad band of underglaze blue with two groups of red and white chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage and scrolls between two oval reserves of flowers on a white ground, on the exterior with two pale blue pierced rocks and a bird and other flowers and foliage above an oriental fence. The saucer is similarly decorated with three oval reserves of flowers and with pale blue rocks etc in the centre within a salmon pink border embellished with gilt foliage. Swansea set pattern 219.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32563

Acquisition

Gift, 20/1/1995
Given by Vernon D. Thorne

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.4
Depth (cm): 8.6
Length (cm): 10.5
Height (cm): 2
Depth (in): 3
Length (in): 4
Height (cm): 2.9
Depth (cm): 14.6
Height (in): 1
Depth (in): 5

Techniques

painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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