Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tea bowl and saucer

Tea bowl and saucer in hard-paste porcelain, both with fluted sides and scalloped rims; the cup and tea bowl both have scolling borders at the inner rim in overglaze red enamel with gilding, both are painted with similar variations on the 'two quail' theme with quails in black, brown and red enamels, and Kakeimon style flowers in puce, blue and yellow with green leaves, including a large yellow flower behind a stylised scholars' rock.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32122

Creation/Production

Unknown
Date: 1740-1750

Acquisition

Gift, 6/3/1922
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Depth (cm): 7.3
Depth (in): 2
Height (cm): 4.6
Height (in): 2
Depth (cm): 12.3
Depth (in): 4

Techniques

moulded
forming
Applied Art
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain

Location

Gallery 11A : Case 02

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