Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Tea-caddy and cover
Tea caddy, hard-paste porcelain, rectangular form with straight sides, curved shoulder and short neck, straight-sided domed cover with flower finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the body and cover a criss-cross pattern of floral festoons tied by purple ribbons and with two exotic birds perched amongst them, gilt lines around the lower body, shoulder, neck and rim of the cover, the finial painted in naturalistic enamels.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36745
Creation/Production
Limbach Porcelain Factory
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.8
Length
(cm): 7.2
Width
(cm): 5.5
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 2
Techniques
Slip-cast
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
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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