Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Pot, stoneware, double waisted form, near-cylindrical foot with deeply inset base tapering to the swelling ovoid body, waisted again below the flared rim, covered with a buff slip overlying a bluish-white slip with a band of brown slip round the upper waisted part, the surface pitted and scratched with oblique lines to reveal the layers of slip.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39116

Creation/Production

Coper, Hans
Date: 1958 ca

Acquisition

Purchase - ass. of DWT, 16/3/2010
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust

Measurements

Height (cm): 16.5
diam (cm): 8.3
Height (in): 6
diam (in): 3

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art

Material

stoneware
slip

Location

Front Hall, South Balcony : Case I

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