A Pontypool ware tin Tray

decorated with ‘Birds of Paradise’.

Tinned plates of thin Iron were japanned by coating completed articles with coloured varnish, baking them to about 140 degrees C. and then further painting and varnishing them. The work was done at Birmingham and elsewhere during the eighteenth century, but nowhere with greater success than in Wales, at Pontypool. 

A similar tray with a ‘Chinese’ scene. Royal Pavilion Brighton

Height: 19 ⅛"
Width: 24 ⅝"