Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tray

Sèvres (Decorator)

Dish, soft-paste porcelain, triangular form with rounded corners, straight-sided foot-rim, curving sides and a shaped edge to the rim; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the upperside of the dish three views of birds in landscapes and three borders of blue zig-zags interlaced with gilt festoons, separated by scattered floral sprays, to the underside of the dish three sprays of flowers spread down the sides and across the base, a gilt dentil edge to the rim. The dish broken and repaired.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35917

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Decorator
Place: Sèvres
Period: 1780

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 3
Length (cm): 22
Width (cm): 20
Height (in): 1
Length (in): 8
Width (in): 7

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soft-paste porcelain
Enamel
Gilding
Glaze

Location

In store
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