Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Cup, tea and saucer

Tea cup, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim, rounded sides and plain loop handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior sides a landscape with an exotic bord perched on a tree, three small insects and five festoons of flowers tied at the top with blue ribbons, to the interior of the cup a green sprig, a gilt edge to the rim, the handle picked out in gilt. Saucer, hard-paste porcelain, short foot-rim and curving sides; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the well a landscape with an exotic bird perched in a tree and four small insects, around the sides of the well five festoons of flowers as on the cup, a gilt edge to the rim.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36581

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Nymphenburg, Germany
Period: 1765-1770

Acquisition

Gift, 14/2/1921

Measurements

Height (cm): 4
diam (cm): 7.5
Width (cm): 9
Height (in): 1
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3
Height (cm): 3
diam (cm): 12.8
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

Hard-paste porcelain

Location

In store
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