Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, the saucer dish shaped and without a well, the saucer and tea bowl with foot rings and slightly out-turned rims; the saucer painted with a central Flemish winter scene closely copying a 1730s Meissen design, featuring numerous figures in winter dress in a landscape with a group of trees and a windmill to the left, two churches to the centre background and two vernacular buildings to the right background, this scene is within an infilled gilt Laub und Bandelwerk cartouche, surrounded by scrolls in puce and red enamel and, at the centre-bottom, drapery in puce, a complex gilt Laub und Bandelwerk border beneath the rim and a plain band of gilt at the rim, the underside of the saucer is decorated with two groups of Japanese-style flowers in puce, red, yellow and green enamel, between which are flying insects in the same colours, the tea bowl is decorated in a similar scheme, with two Flemish winter scenes, one a smaller version of that on the saucer and the other a harbour scene, the interior of the tea bowl is painted with a small harbour scene in puce.