Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee

Coffee cup, soft-paste porcelain, with a greyish-white green-tinged translucency; standing on a tapered foot rim, rounded sides, with a slightly waved lip, with a narrow band of basket weave moulding above moulded spiral gadrooning; ear-shaped loop handle; painted in gilt only with four small flower sprays; gilt lip, gilt band to foot rim, and gilt leaf to the handle.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33958

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Swansea
Period: 1816-1826

Acquisition

Gift, 1901

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.2
diam (cm): 7.6
l(cm) handle to lip:9.3
l(cm)
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 3
l(in) handle to lip:3 5/8
l(in)

Techniques

Jolleyed
Forming
Applied Art
Slip-cast
Forming
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soft-paste porcelain
Gilding

Location

In store
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