Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate, earthenware, circular shape with squared-off foot-rim, cushion-moulded sides and spreading rim, the rim moulded with sprigs of flowers, the outer rim moulded with c-scrolls and lobed; transfer-printed in brown with to the centre of the well a rural scene showing a figure of a countrywoman, carrying a basket and feeding fowls which are gathered around her, against a background of a cottage, trees and distant hills, the moulded sprigs to the rim overpainted in red, blue and green.

This plate is decorated with a transfer print depicting a woman feeding chickens. The Ynysmeudwy Pottery produced domestic earthenware and architectural ceramics from about 1845 to 1875. It was situated on the Swansea Canal at Ynysmeudwy, near Pontardawe, ten miles north east of Swansea.