Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tea urn, standing on a plain square base supported at the corners by lion pads surmounted by palm scrolls and demi-palmettes, the spreading foot is gadrooned at the base, and junction with hemisperical body, the latter ornamented only with braod band of reeding at top, passing above two twin lion masks from which spring the reeded and bound handles. Straight spigot twining down to serpent head terminal fan shaped tap; collar with gadrooned edge encloses the shallow domed cover with twisted oval finial. Urn contains sleeve for a box iron.