Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate, dessert

Plate, soft-paste porcelain, 'duck egg' type with a pale greenish translucency, lustrous glaze with a slight grey-green tinge, irredescent around the enamels. Standing on a shallow foot, plain everted rim, painted in the centre with scarlet poppies (papaver rhoeas), with buttercups, forget-me-nots and grasses, the rim decorated 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.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33728

Creation/Production

Swansea China Works
Unknown
Date: 1816-1817 –

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund

Measurements

Height (cm): 3.5
Height (cm): 23.7
Height (in): 3.5
Height (in): 9

Techniques

press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art

Material

soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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