Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tea bowl and saucer

Tea bowl and saucer in hard-paste porcelain, the cup with slightly flaring rim and raised foot ring, the saucer dish-shaped with foot ring, flared rim and without a well; border of black enamel with linked 'C' scrolls in gilt on the interior rim of the tea bowl and saucer, the cup with two Meissen-style cartouches formed by black enamel and gilt scrolled borders from which issue gilt scrolls and stylised flowers in puce and red enamel, one with a painted indoor scene in polychrome enamels and the other with finely painted flowers and a flying insect in puce, the saucer with a larger version of the indoor scene on the tea bowl, also in polychrome enamels and with the same cartouche border, featuring a mother and child behind a table laid with a bowl of fruit and a vase of scrolls, behind them a window with bamboo blind looking out onto a garden.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32126

Creation/Production

Unknown
Date: 1760-1770

Acquisition

Gift, 10/7/1924
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

d(in):tea bowl 2 3/4
h(in):tea bowl 1 1/2
d(in):saucer 4 5/8
d(cm):tea bowl 7.2
h(cm):tea bowl 4
d(cm):saucer 11.7

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain

Location

Gallery 11A : Case 02

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