Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate, dessert

Swansea China Works (Decorator)
Unknown (Decorator)

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.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 33728

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Role: Production
Role: Decorator
Place: Swansea
Place: London, England
Period: 1816-1817

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of NACF, 8/4/1998

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

On Display
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