Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cream tureen, cover and stand, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a greenish translucency, lustrous green-tinged glaze, irredescent around the enamels (that to the stand lightly crazed). Tureen, round, on a pedestal foot, shoulders tapering in to a shallow neck, two spindle handles with floret terminals on curving brackets; two gilt lines to the foot, painted on one side with pink and white columbine (aquilegia) and on the other with maroon and yellow auricula (auricula primula) and with grasses, decorated at the shoulders 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, gilt bands of laurel and ermine to the handles. Flat-topped conical cover, with aperture for a ladle, beaded below a gilt pineapple finial; the rim gilded as the shoulders of the tureen below a band of purple and blue vetch. The stand standing on a shallow foot rim, and with recessed centre; painted with red fuschia (Fuschia thalia) and grass within the same border of gilt vases and arabesques.