Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate, dessert

Plate, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot, plain everted rim, painted in the centre with a yellow rudbeckia (Rudbeckia 'Gloriosa Daisy) amid grasses, the rim decorated with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between two gilt lines.3 pad marks by foot rim.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33739

Creation/Production

Swansea China Works
Unknown
Date: 1816-1817 –

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.4
diam (cm): 23.7
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 9

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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