Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sucrier with cover

Sucrier, hard-paste porcelain, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, cylindrical sides, domed cover with to the top a nipple-topped finial with a beaded edge; the lower exterior body of the sucrier and the top of the cover covered with a light brown ground in imitation of the grain of wood, against which are reserved two oval panels finely painted in black monochrome with miniature landscapes showing buildings on the banks of rivers, to the exterior lip-rim of the sucrier and the rim of the cover a running border of miniature forget-me-nots between two gilt lines, a gilt edge to the rim of the cover, the top of the finial painted gilt, the beading painted green.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35470

Creation/Production

Nymphenburg State Factory
Date: 1780-1790

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 7.4
diam (cm): 7.1
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze

Location

Front Hall, North Balcony : Case A

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