Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Coffee jug, hard-paste porcelain, bulbous pear-shaped form, standing on three scrolled leaf-moulded feet, an impressed basket-work border around the neck, beak spout with goat mask to the base, handle in the form of entwined snakes, domed cover with pinecone finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the jug two large sprays of flowers and several scattered floral sprigs, further floral sprigs to the cover, the feet, spout and handle picked out in puce, chocolate-brown lines to the rims of the jug and cover, the finial picked out in brown.