Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, soup and stand

Queensberry, David (Marquis of Queensberry) (David Queensberry was Professor of Ceramics at the Royal College of Art, London. He is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Doctor of the University of Staffordshire.)

Cream soup cup and stand, white earthenware with clear glaze, 'Fine' shape, the cup with an inset base, concave bevelled body immediately above the base, rising to vertical sides with two ledge handles, the stand with a foot ring, broad well and angled sides; transfer-printed with the Op-Art inspired 'Focus' pattern, the stand with a repeating motif border of a black circle on a grey square, followed by a grey-blue circle on a black square, the body of the cup also with a repeating motif pattern comprising a large black circle on a grey square, followed by a square of the same size made up of four smaller squares with overlying circles in the same colour palette as the motifs on the stand.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39365

Creation/Production

Midwinter Ltd, W.R.
Brown, Barbara
Queensberry, David (Marquis of Queensberry)
Midwinter, Roy
Date: 1964 ca –

Acquisition

Gift, 13/12/2011
Given by Les Higgins

Measurements

diam (cm): 11.4
diam (in): 4
(): l(cm) handle to handle:14.4 (cup)
(): l(cm)
(): l(in) handle to handle:5 3/4 (cup)
(): l(in)
Height (cm): 5.5
Height (in): 2
diam (cm): 16.3
diam (in): 6

Techniques

slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

earthenware

Location

In store
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