Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee and saucer

Coffee cup, hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical body with plain loop handle; decorated in blue enamel and gilt with to the front of the cup the initial 'M' in blue painted over crossed branches in gilt and with a blue wreath and ribbon above, around the upper body a border of a stylized scroll design in blue and gilt, gilt lines around the base and lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, inset base and straight flaring sides; decorated in blue enamel and gilt with to the well with to the well the initial 'M' in blue painted over crossed branches in gilt and with a blue wreath and ribbon above, around the sides of the well a border as on the cup, a gilt line around the rim.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 37049

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Niderviller, France
Period: 18th century (late)

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.3
diam (cm): 6.4
Width (cm): 8.9
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 3.3
diam (cm): 13.4
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
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Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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