Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Red earthenware, painted tin-glaze decoration. Large rotund form, with very narrow neck and opening with wider ridge halfway at neck, Strap handle running from ridge at neck to body of bottle. Visible potting lines to body of bottle. Decorated with white tin-glaze with painted decoration in burnt yellow. Yellow decoration applied with a brush, one apposite handle, circular main form, with petal-like strokes at top and bottom. Two scrolls at right angles to handle in yellow. At neck two yellow bands.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39502
Creation/Production
CAIGER-SMITH, Alan
Caiger-Smith, Alan
Aldermaston Pottery, England
Date: 1962 –
Acquisition
Transfer, 30/8/2013
Measurements
Height
(cm): 30.5
Height
(in): 12
diam
(cm): 24.5
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
Location
In store
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