Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, coffee and cover

Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a rounded spreading foot-rim, pear-shaped body, triangular beak spout, high loop handle, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the form of an apple with a stem and leaf; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover sprays and sprigs of roses and cornflowers, around the exterior neck of the coffee pot and the sides of the cover a gilt trellis border interspersed with painted pearls, narrow gilt lines around the foot-rim, lower body and exterior lip-rim of the coffee pot and around the rim of the cover, the spout, handle and finial picked out in gilt.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35957

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Niderviller, France
Period: 1780 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 23.5
diam (cm): 12.5
Width (cm): 16.9
Height (in): 9
diam (in): 4
Width (in): 6

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

In store
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