Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Jar and cover

Jar and cover, stoneware, orange body with fine grained white inclusions, sitting on a flat, conical base with no foot ring, the body angling outwards above the foot in an ogee-form, with upright sides, rounded flat shoulder and short neck, the cover is concave and with an inverted conical knop; above the foot, the jar is covered with a speckled tin-glaze, with broad, shallow diagonal incisions spaced evenly around the body, the upper face of the cover also has a speckled glaze, the interior of the pot and underside of the cover have a plain white tin-glaze.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39504

Creation/Production

Hanssen, Louis
Date: 1960 ca

Acquisition

Transfer, 30/8/2013

Measurements

Height (cm): 18
Height (in): 7
diam (cm): 14.5
diam (in): 5

Techniques

coiled
forming
Applied Art
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
incised
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

stone

Location

In store
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