Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Jug of red earthenware. Mediaeval form, standing on a flat spreading base with tall baluster-shaped body and spreading rim with pinched spout; prominent throwing rings, especially round the neck; heavy extruded handle with three deeply impressed finger marks at the lower terminal. The exterior coated in a pale buff slip, with a single rough vertical sgraffito mark down each side; the exterior coated in a bright green glaze, the interior with a yellow glaze, the foot unglazed.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 34419

Creation/Production

Clive, Bowen
Date: 1999

Acquisition

Purchase, 24/1/2000

Measurements

Height (cm): 58.6
diam (cm): 19
Width (cm): 24
Height (in): 23
diam (in): 7
Width (in): 9

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
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slip-decorated
decoration
Applied Art
sgraffito
decoration
Applied Art

Material

earthenware
glaze

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case A

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