Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cream jug, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency , lustrous glaze. Circular, standing on a shallow rounded foot, flattened bun-shape body with pronounced mould lines, shallow vertical lip and upturned spout, flattened loop handle. 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 three oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads, the outer face of the handle gilded, and a gilt shell and rays inside the spout.