Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sucrier and cover, mixed or duck egg paste, with a faint green translucency; London shape with rectangular bulbous body swelling from the foot and to the wide shoulders, rounded corners and two small loop handles, plateau shaped cover with rounded pyramid finial; decorated at foot with a band of salmon pink painted with gilt leaves with central gilt star on a blue ground, sides with underglaze blue ground painted at the ends with red and white chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage, reserved with two ovals of flowers on a white ground, handles gilded, and a band of gilt foliage to shoulders; lid edged with band of underglaze blue painted with gilt leaves, flowers and fence within.