Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Sugar bowl and cover, soft-paste porcelain, clear white translucency , lustrous glaze. Circular, standing on a shallow rounded foot, flattened bun-shape body with pronounced mould lines, shallow lip containing the flattened domed lid, and with a pinecone finial, two upturned curved loop handles. Decorated with a gilt band at the foot and neck, lower part of the body white, with a gilt band of pendant loops and rays, the remainder with an unevenly applied blue-green ground ornamented with an oeil de perdrix pattern (reserves of gilt spots within a border of blue dots) reserved with four oval panels painted with roses and garden flowers within a border of gilt beads, two of which contain the gilded handles; the cover similarly decorated, the oeil de perdrix ground reserved with three oval panels of flowers around a central circular reserve containing a band of flowers around the base of the gilded finial, and edged with the loop and ray border used on the lower part of the sugar bowl.