Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup form, stoneware, standing on a slightly tapering cylindrical drum base with a deep kick and protruding central boss, a cylindrical stem set into the top of this and extending inside the ovoid bowl to form a stem-holder, the bowl with a squared-off rim, the whole coated in off-white slip with a band of blistered dark slip round the rim patchily covered with a thin white slip.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39113

Creation/Production

Coper, Hans
Date: 1975 ca

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 16/3/2010
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 16.3
Width (cm): 10.9
Depth (cm): 10.5
Height (in): 6
Width (in): 4
Depth (in): 4

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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