Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee and saucer

Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain badly pitted to hte interior of the cup, short foot-rim and cylindrical sides curving inwards towards the bottom, plain loop handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the cup a male figure carrying a fishing rod, an ox and a sheep in a landscape, two gilt sprigs to the rest of the exterior sides, a gilt edge to the lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the well a reclining herdsman and two oxen in a landscape, three small gilt sprigs scattered around the sides of the well, a gilt edge to the rim.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36379

Creation/Production

Höchst Porcelain Factory

Acquisition

Gift, 2/6/1920

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.7
diam (cm): 6.8
Width (cm): 8.6
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 3.1
diam (cm): 13.7
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 5

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

In store
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