Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee and saucer

Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim, high sides and wishbone handle, an impressed basketwork pattern around the upper body; decorated with to the front of the cup the initials 'F.J.R.' painted in gilt and enclosed by a wreath of ribbon-tied puce leaves, two floral sprigs in puce to the rest of the exterior sides, the handle picked out in puce, a gilt line around the lip-rim. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides, an impressed basketwork border around the sides of the well; decorated with to the well the initials 'F.J.R.' painted in gilt and enclosed by a wreath of ribbon-tied puce leaves as on the cup, four floral sprigs in puce to the sides of the well, a gilt line around the rim.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36755

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Wallendorf, Thuringia
Period: 1770-1790

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.9
diam (cm): 6.3
Width (cm): 8.7
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 3.2
diam (cm): 13.4
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
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Assembled
Forming
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Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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