Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, breakfast and saucer

Breakfast cup and saucer, soft-paste ('duck egg') porcelain, the cup standing on a foot ring, with curved sides and slightly everted rim, loop handle with inner spur, the saucer with slightly spreading foot ring and plain curved sides; both cup and saucer enamelled with named birds, a blue hawk and chatterer on the cup, a heron on the saucer, with gilded border of continuous scrolls on the saucer.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 38268

Measurements

Height (cm): 7.1
Width (cm): 12.7
diam (cm): 11
Height (cm): 2.7
diam (cm): 16.1
Height (in): 2
Width (in): 5
diam (in): 4
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 6
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