Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, stoneware, deeply inset foot, concave lower section rising to convex upper part, tapering to rim, turned ridges around the upper section, the upper half and inside covered in a shiny iron-rich amber glaze revealing in patches a clear glaze over white slip below, the lower part covered with off-white slip abraded, pitted and with a band of roughly cut marks at the top of the concave section.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39122

Creation/Production

Coper, Hans
Date: 1950-1955

Acquisition

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

Measurements

Height (cm): 11.9
diam (cm): 8.3
Height (in): 4
diam (in): 3

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
abraded
incised
decoration
Applied Art
turned
forming
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip
glaze

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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