Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot and cover

Pot, hard-paste porcelain, rococo form, standing on an oval domed foot with overlapping leaves of fluting and a scrolled foot-rim, roughly oval body with flaring curving sides and a waved edge to the lip-rim, a band of raised ovals around the lower body, roughyl oval domed cover with a scrolled edge and mouldd fluted leaves around the sides, a modelled leek to the top of the cover; finely painted with to either side of the exterior body of the pot a riverside landscape in puce enclosed within a cartouche of delicate foliate scrolls in gilt, to the rest of the exterior body two foliate scrolled motifs in gilt and three leaf sprigs in purple, the foot-rim, the moulding around the lower body of the pot, the rim of the cover and the moulded areas around the sides of the cover picked out in gilt, the modelled leek painted green. The body of the pot cracked and repaired, chips to the top of the cover.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35551

Creation/Production

Ansbach State Factory
Date: 1767 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 11.7
Length (cm): 8.3
Width (cm): 7.5
Height (in): 4
diam (in): 3
Width (in): 2

Techniques

slip-cast
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

Front Hall, North Balcony : Case F

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