These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Shallow bowl or dish, of pale stone-paste, standing on a roughly finished tapering foot rim, spreading, rounded sides, ending in an uneven and chipped outer rim; painted on either side of the central well with two large fish, mirror images of one another, painted in outline in under glaze dark brown, both with large eyes of two concentric circles and with scales on the upper backs and below the eye area, with two feathered fins on the upper back and two on the lower body with curved and feathered tails, the unscaled portions coloured with washes of bright under glaze blue, surrounded with large stylised sprigs of foliage and berries interspersed with smaller scrolled motifs, all in dark brown and filled and detailed with the same bright under glaze blue, the whole covered in a very glassy and thick transparent glaze, much pitted on the underside.
