Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Pot
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
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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