Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish

Dish, hard-paste porcelain, oval shape with straight-sided foot-rim and curving sides, a shaped lobed edge to the rim; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the interior of the dish a criss-cross pattern of festoons of flowers tied to either end of the dish by a purple ribbon and with a European bird perched on a festoon to the centre, a slightly worn gilt edge to the rim. The foot-rim slightly chipped.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35604

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Limbach, Thuringia
Period: 1775-1785

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918

Measurements

Height (cm): 4
Length (cm): 18.5
Width (cm): 15.1
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 7
Width (in): 5

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Hard-paste porcelain
Enamel
Gilding
Glaze

Location

In store
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