Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Tea bowl and saucer

Unknown (Factory)

Tea bowl, pearlware, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, curving ogee sides; the exterior sides covered with a blue slip apart from two bands left white around the foot-rim and lip-rim, decorated in underglaze blue with imbricated borders around the lip-rim and a floral sprig to the interior bottom of the bowl. Saucer, pearlware, short cylindrical foot-rim and curving ogee sides; the sides of the well covered with a blue slip; decorated in underglaze blue with imbricated borders around the edge of the well and the rim, a floral sprig to the centre of the well.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36214

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Leeds, Yorkshire
Period: 18th century (late)

Acquisition

Purchase, 26/3/1914

Measurements

Height (cm): 5.2
diam (cm): 8
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 3
Height (cm): 4.2
diam (cm): 13
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Underglaze blue
Decoration
Applied Art
Slip-decorated
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Pearlware
Slip
Glaze

Location

In store
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