Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sweetmeat dish

Sweetmeat dish, hard- paste porcelain, leaf- shaped forms with rounded sides, to the base an applied twig with leaves and flowers froming the feet of the dish, one part of the dish twig rising up to form a handle to the dish which has now broken off; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the interior and exterior sparays and sprigs of flowers, be applied twig picked up in brown, yellow and green, a gilt line around the rim.

(We are not able to provide an image for this item at this time. This is either due to copyright restrictions, or because the item is awaiting digitisation. We apologise for any inconvenience.)

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36341

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Vienna
Period: 18th century (late)

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.5
Length (cm): 8
Width (cm): 7.2
Height (in): 1
Length (in): 3
Width (in): 2

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Applied
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.