Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish, pie with liner and cover

Unknown (Factory)

Caneware game-pie dish, oval form with flat base and walls tapering gently to the rim, slightly domed cover and oval liner with out-turned lip, remains of string and strips of fabric at rim of liner to facilitate its removal from the dish; moulded around the body of the dish with braces of large and small game birds and fruiting vines, with sprigged decoration imitating a pie crust on top of the rim and diagonal notches running around the edge of the base, the cover is moulded with braces of birds and rabbits and the knop is in the form of a rabbit (or hare) sitting amid grass/hay.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39481

Creation/Production

Became Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd in 1895
Role: Production
Role: Designer
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Etruria, Staffordshire
Period: 1869

Acquisition

Gift, 11/3/2013

Measurements

Length (cm): 29
Length (in): 11
Height (cm): 18
Height (in): 7
Width (cm): 19.2
Width (in): 7

Techniques

Slip-cast
Forming
Applied Art
Moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Sprigged
Decoration
Applied Art
Impressed
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Caneware

Location

In store
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