Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Coffee pot, slightly greyish hard-paste porcelain, rounded spreading foot-rim, bulbous ovoid body, cylindrical neck, curving spout with foliate moulding to the underside, ridged loop handle, round domed cover with flat collar-like rim and to the top an acorn finial; painted in polychrome enamels with to one side of the exterior body of the coffee pot a coat of arms with three chains, a horn and a cross, and with a crown above, around the rest of the exterior body of the coffee pot and the top of the cover scattered insects including butterflies, ladybirds and a snail, a border of red flower heads around the lower body and the shoulder of the coffee pot and a border of red chevrons around the top of the exterior neck, a gilt scrolled motif around the base of the spout, gilt bands around the foot-rim, shoulder and exterior neck of the coffee-pot and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the finial gilded.

The arms painted onto the reverse of this teapot are those of the Gerini-Franceschi family of Florence, who were important clients of the Doccia factory.