Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Vase, with cover

Vase, thickly potted hard-paste porcelain, urn-shaped form with flaring foot, bulbous shoulder, concave neck, to either side of the shoulder twin rococo scroll and foliate moulded handles, round domed cover with to either side two panels of rectangular perforations and to the top a moulded foliate rosette with a cone finial rising out of the centre; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the vase a rustic landscape with ruins, two smaller landscapes to the cover, the handles, rims and rosette and finial on the cover touched with gilt.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36499

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Brunswick, Germany
Period: 1760-1780

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 36
diam (cm): 20.9
Width (cm): 26.7
Height (in): 14
diam (in): 8
Width (in): 10

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

Location

On Display

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