Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, stoneware, slender barrel-shaped form tapering to narrow deeply inset foot, undulating rim, the upper half and inside covered in a shiny iron-rich amber glaze revealing in two flashes on opposite sides a clear glaze over white slip below, the lower half covered with off-white slip abraded and incised.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39121

Creation/Production

Coper, Hans
Date: 1950-1955

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 16/3/2010
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 13.9
diam (cm): 7.8
Height (in): 5
diam (in): 3

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
abraded
incised
decoration
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip
glaze

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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