Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sucrier, hard-paste porcelain, waisted foot-rim and rounded sides, round domed cover with to the centre a broken and pooorly restored finial in the form of a pear with leaf; decorated with to the front of the sucrier a shield in pink containing a yellow ground against which is painted a small bust in monochrome, the shield and bust enclosed by festoons of green leaves which lead off to either side of the shield and terminate in supports in the form of monochrome ram's heads with gilt rings, the same design of shield and bust is repeated on the cover, but the festoons terminate in bird's heads support, around the rest of the exterior sides and the cover are scattered small gilt sprigs, gilt bands around the rim of the sucrier and the rim of the cover.