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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