Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Plate, earthenware, circular shape with squared-off foot-rim, cushion-moulded sides and spreading rim, the rim moulded with alternating sprigs of flowers and sprays of foliage; transfer-printed in black and overpainted in puce, blue, green and yellow with to the centre of the well a scene showing in the foreground the figure of a young girl clad in a cloak and carrying a basket pulling on a door bell by the side of an open door through which can be glimpsed the figure of a wolf in a bed, to the other side of the scene is a beehive and a flowering bush.

This plate depicts a scene from the children's tale, Little Red Riding Hood. The Ynysmeudwy Pottery produced domestic earthenware and architectural ceramics from about 1845 to 1875. It was situated on the Swansea Canal at Ynysmeudwy, near Pontardawe, ten miles north east of Swansea.