Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Vase of earthenware, standing on a pronounced turned and ground foot with concave sides, with ovoid lower body, pronounced shoulder, concave neck and flared rim, two applied moulded ring-and-mask handles and ridge moulded in relief round the middle of the neck; decorated under a clear glaze in reddish browns and gold leaf with a thickly painted design of flowers trailing down from the neck on each side and three butterflies, all on an ochre 'gold' ground painted in white slip with scrolls and stylised flowerheads; below the rim, above the foot and in two vertical sections joining the rim and handles, lambrequin-like panels delineated by outlines raised in low relief and decorated under the glaze with red flowers and black scrolls on a brown ground; the ridge round the neck and the handle rings striped in brown on the 'gold' ground, the handle masks glazed in purple; the concave sides of the foot decorated with a band of stylised flowers and leaves and covered in a purple glaze which has run down over a turquoise 'bleu Deck' glaze covering the bottom part of the foot; around the body are eight pairs of small dots in 'bleu Deck'; the inside is glazed in 'bleu Deck', the underside of the base in a pale green.