Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dish, cream-coloured earthenware, finely crazed glaze, slightly tinged with blue; press-moulded and jiggered; silver shape with a notched and lobed rim with upturned edge, flat base; painted in underglaze blue and green and in ochre, yellow and brown with a chinoiserie landscape comprising an island with a double roofed pagoda flanked by two outsized flowering plants, water and weeds below, V-shaped formations of flying birds in the sky; the rim edged in brown and with a running pattern of blue and yellow marguerites and foliage.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 32251

Creation/Production

1790 - 1802
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Swansea
Period: 1790-1800

Acquisition

Gift, 8/2/1994

Measurements

Height (cm): 2.6
diam (cm): 31.1
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 12

Techniques

Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Jiggered
Forming
Applied Art
Painted
Decoration
Applied Art
Under-glaze colours
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Creamware

Location

On Display
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