Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, coffee and cover

Coffee pot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a slightly flaring short cylindrical foot-rim, pear-shaped body with cylindrical neck and rounded lip-rim, triangular beak spout, plain loop handle with scrolled lower terminal, round domed cover with flat collar-like rim, to the top of the cover a nipple-topped finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the front of the exterior body of the coffee pot a group of fruit bordered below by rococo scrolls in puce, around the rest of the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover scattered insects including butterflies and a ladybird, chocolate edges to the spout, handle, lip-rim of the coffee pot and the rim of the cover, the finial picked out in puce. The lip-rim above the spout broken and repaired.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35520

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Ludwigsburg, Germany
Period: 1760-1775

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 24.3
diam (cm): 12.4
Width (cm): 15
Height (in): 9
diam (in): 4
Width (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain
Enamel
Glaze

Location

In store
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