Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish

Asenbryl, Oldrich (1943-2024)

Dish of greyish porcelain with barium glaze; circular, standing on a tapering foot rim, with a further raised ring with inset middle in its centre; curved sides and thickened rim; decorated in the centre with a black rectangular transfer print of a 'Charles Atlas' body-builder figure, the ground decorated with low-fired enamels (areas of pink, black lines, a red and blue striped linear motif) and stripes of gold lustre running along and perpendicular to the rim; patches of underglaze pink and greyish pink on both sides; a pink enamel dot disguising a glaze fault near the top edge of the obverse.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 34451

Creation/Production

Asenbryl, Oldrich
Date: 1981

Acquisition

Purchase, 23/3/1900

Measurements

Height (cm): 8.1
diam (cm): 40.2
Height (in): 3
diam (in): 15

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
lustre, gold
decoration
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

porcelain
glaze
enamel

Location

In store
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