Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Egg-cup, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency, lustrous glaze. Standing on a stepped foot, bell-shaped body and everted lip. Decorated with a gilt band at the foot and lip, the lower part of the exterior white, with a gilt band of loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with two oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads; the interior with a gilt line at the lip above a band of pendant loops, rays and dots, and painted with garden flowers at the bottom.