Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Teapot, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body and short raised lip-rim, plain curving spout, ear-shaped handle, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the form of a piece of fruit with a stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the teapot a view of a bird in a landscape, around the rest of the exterior body and the spout scattered floral sprigs with around the upper and lower body borders of blue zig-zags interlaced with gilt festoons, two similar borders around the top of the cover, a gilt line around the foot-rim, a gilt dentil edge to the lip-rim, the lip of the spout and the rim of the cover, the handle picked out in gilt, the finial painted in gilt. The lip of the spout chipped.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35919

Creation/Production

Sèvres
VIEILLARD, André-Vincent
Date: 1780 –

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 9.4
diam (cm): 7.1
Width (cm): 11.8
Height (in): 3
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 4

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
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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