Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Ice-cream, pail, cover and liner, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge. The pail tub-shaped, standing on three bun-feet (each with a central hole), rounded base and straight sides, rounded lip, two rectangular handles with spreading grooved terminals; painted on either side above a gilt line with a spray of yellow and pink honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) and with a passion flower (Passiflora caerula), both amid grasses, the upper part decorated above with a continuous band of hatched and shaded gilding, comprising fluted vases with conical covers alternating with arabesques, floriate scrolls and florets between gilt lines, the feet gilt, and the handles gilded with bell-flowers in line and dot borders. The cover with a projecting rim and shallow flange, upstanding gallery or collar, and double scroll loop handle; painted within the gallery with pink dodecatheon (Dodecatheon meadia) amid grasses, the exterior of the gallery decorated in gilding as the upper part of the pail, the interior with a simpler pattern of scrolls, foliage and diaper panels, running leaf pattern in gilding to the rim, the handle gilded as those of the pail. Plain, bowl-shaped liner, standing on a shallow grooved foot rim, steep sides, and everted rim with gilt line border.