Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Pot and cover
Pot, hard-paste porcelain, rococo form, standing on an oval domed foot with overlapping leaves of fluting and a scrolled foot-rim, roughly oval body with flaring curving sides and a waved edge to the lip-rim, a band of raised ovals around the lower body, roughly oval domed cover with a scrolled edge and moulded fluted leaves around the sides, a modelled leek to the top of the cover; finely painted with to either side of the exterior body of the pot a riverside landscape in puce enclosed within a cartouche of delicate foliate scrolls in gilt, to the rest of the exterior body two foliate scrolled motifs in gilt and two leaf sprigs in purple, the foot-rim, the moulding around the lower body of the pot, the rim of the cover and the moulded areas around the sides of the cover picked out in gilt, the modelled leek painted green. Chips to the top of the cover and the lip-rim of the pot.
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