Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Porringer and cover
Porringer, pale cream-coloured earthenware with a soft greenish-yellow tinge to the glaze, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, rounded curving sides, to either side of the body twin horizontal loop handles with impressed flower heads at the terminals, round domed cover with to the top a loop handle with impressed flower heads at the terminals, engine-turned banding around the exterior lip-rim of the porringer and the rim of the cover; the exterior body of the porringer and the top of the cover marbled under the glaze with shades of brown and yellow, the banded borders overpainted with a wash of green enamel, the handles touched with washes of green enamel. The body of the porringer broken and repaired.
(We are not able to provide an image for this item at this time. This is either due to copyright restrictions, or because the item is awaiting digitisation. We apologise for any inconvenience.)
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35818
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 18th century (late)
Acquisition
Exchange, 15/3/1916
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.3
diam
(cm): 13.3
Width
(cm): 15.2
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 5
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
under-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.