Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, tea and saucer

Hall, Morgen (Maker)

Teacup and saucer, red terracotta earthenware; cup with elongated ovoid body, standing on a shallow rounded foot-rim, rouletted and burnished a red-brown, everted lip, loop handle in form of a reversed six with ball terminal; coated in a mottled off-white tin-glaze, the interior plain, the exterior with orange veining from the body, and densely ornamented with blue spots, the lip blue; saucer dish-shaped, on a rouletted foot, with a rounded lip and cup recess, coated in off-white tin-glaze, the rim sparsely ornamented with blue spots, the recess more densely spotted, the lip blue veined with green.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32620

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Maker
Place: Cardiff
Period: 1995

Acquisition

Purchase, 5/5/1995

Measurements

Height (cm): 9.6
l(cm) handle to lip:11.7
l(cm)
diam (cm): 8.6
Height (in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:4 5/8
l(in)
diam (in): 3
Height (cm): 2.6
diam (cm): 15.1
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 6

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art

Material

Tin-glazed earthenware

Location

On Display

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