Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tureen, integral stand, and cover, pearl-glazed earthenware, oval stand rising to form a trumpet foot, oval bowl with aperture for spoon, bifurcated handles with foliate terminals at either end, stepped ogee-profile cover with a ring handle, painted with named botanical flowers named under stand: the bowl with 'Alpine Toad-Flax', a purple hooded flower with yellow stamens and spear-shaped foliage, opposite side the 'White Leav,d Indigo' with small orange flowers and narrow foliage; cover with 'Crimson Trefoil', a long orange spike with a tripartite leaf, and, opposite side, the 'African Flax', a yellow, five-petalled flower with narrow foliage; rims enamelled dark brown.

Painted by Thomas Pardoe with flowers and grasses after Curtis's Botanical Magazine.