Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sucrier with cover

Sucrier, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and rounded sides, domed cover with acorn finial; painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior of the sucrier and the top of the cover scattered floral sprigs including pink roses, around the top of the sucrier and the rim of the cover elaborate borders of gilt scrolls with a blue line running through them, gilt dentil edges to the upper rim of the sucrier and the rim of the cover, the finial partially gilt.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 37071

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Paris
Period: 18th century (late)

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 8.1
diam (cm): 7.3
Height (in): 3
diam (in): 2

Techniques

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

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store

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