Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, tea and saucer

Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and shallow bowl with rounded sides, plain loop handle; decorated in purple monochrome with around the exterior sides a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, a further sprig to the interior bottom of the bowl, around the interior lip-rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers, the handle picked out in purple. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; decorated in purple monochrome with to the well a spray and scattered sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, around the rim a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowers.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36361

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Mainz, Germany
Period: 1755-1765

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.9
diam (cm): 7
Width (cm): 8.6
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 2.8
diam (cm): 12.5
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 4

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Extruded
Forming
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Assembled
Forming
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Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
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Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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