Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Teapot, cover and stand, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency , lustrous glaze with numerous pin holes. The teapot circular, standing on a shallow rounded foot, flattened bun-shape body with pronounced mould lines, shallow gallery containing the flattened domed lid, pierced with a steam hole, and with a pinecone finial, flattened loop handle with a pronounced spur, short up-curving spout; the stand circular, on a shallow footrim, recessed centre. The teapot decorated with a gilt band at the foot and neck, lower part of the body white, with a gilt band of pendant loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with four oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads, the spout and the outer face of the handle gilded; the cover similarly decorated, the oeil de perdrix ground reserved with three oval panels of flowers around a central circular reserve containing a band of flowers around the base of the gilded finial, and edged with the loop and ray border used on the lower part of the teapot. The stand en suite with three oval reserves of flowers on the oeil de perdrix rim, and the centre painted with a large bouquet of flowers within a gilded border of loops and rays.