Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, coffee and saucer

Coffee cup, soft-paste porcelain, short foot-rim, high narrow sides and scrolled handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with a group of flowers to the front of the cup, around the interior lip-rim a formal gilt border, a gilt line around the lip-rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, soft-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the well a group of flowers, around the rim a formal gilt border.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36943

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Naples
Period: 1750-1755

Acquisition

Gift, 24/7/1919

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.8
diam (cm): 6.5
Width (cm): 8.5
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 2
Height (cm): 2.7
diam (cm): 13.4
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 5

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Gilded
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Soft-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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