Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish, dessert

Caughley (Factory)

Dessert dish, thickly potted soaprock porcelain, shell-shaped form with high foot-rim and curving sides; decorated with the 'Lily' pattern, around the sides of the well panels of a stylized floral design in underglaze blue, a stylized floral spray in red enamel touched with gilt to the centre of the well, and to the underside of the rim three floral sprays in underglaze blue and red enamel, around the edge of the well and the rim a border of gilt hatching and scrolls, now worn, on an underglaze blue ground, a brown line around the edge of the rim, the shell-moulding to one side of the dish picked out in gilt.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 37119

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Shropshire
Period: 1785-1790

Acquisition

Bequest, 1929

Measurements

Height (cm): 4.8
Length (cm): 20
Width (cm): 19.2
Height (in): 1
Length (in): 7
Width (in): 7

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Underglaze blue
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soaprock porcelain

Location

In store
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