Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, stoneware, slender barrel-shaped form with deeply inset base, concave lower section, swelling body and slightly everted rim, wide band of manganese slip below the rim, off-white slip covering the rest of the body abraded with predominantly vertical marks round the waist of the pot and revealing signs of a bluish-white slip beneath, a brown glaze inside.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39119

Creation/Production

Coper, Hans
Date: 1953-1958

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 16/3/2010
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 14
diam (cm): 7.6
Height (in): 5
diam (in): 3

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
abraded

Material

stoneware
slip
glaze

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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