Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Tea bowl and saucer
Tea bowl and saucer in hard-paste porcelain, the saucer bowl shaped and without a well, both with fluted sides and scalloped rims; bulk export ware painted in underglaze blue with 'Nankin' landscapes featuring pagodas and trees separated by a river, a man riding a horse across a bridge whilst shielded by a fan-bearer, a fisherman on a boat, elaborate composite border pattern of scales, flowers, foliage and trellises, similar decorative scheme applied to tea bowl with the addition of a single sprig at the interior base, plain bands of gilding to rims and foot rim of tea bowl added in London.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32145
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1780-1800
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Depth
(cm): 12.3
Depth
(in): 4
Height
(cm): 3.3
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(cm): 7.6
Depth
(in): 3
Height
(cm): 4.6
Height
(in): 1
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
engraved
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Gallery 11A : Case 02
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