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Ewer, standing on a compressed conical foot in turned oak, pear-shaped body rising to a flaring lip, and C-scroll handle in pewter; covered in ox leather, sewn over the body in four vertical strips coated with a green-black ground painted with a band of anthemia in brown-red at the shoulders, and with the head of a long-horn ox in a husk oval pendant from husk swags below the lip, and varnished; the lip and foot rivetted with beaded vandycked silver mounts, the former engraved on each side with the Williams-Wynn crest of an eagle displayed in a beaded cartouche.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50645
Creation/Production
Dobson, Mr
Creswell, Joseph
Trokes, Mr
Date: 1776 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 24/9/1990
Measurements
Height
(cm): 30.8
diam
(cm): 15.5
Length
(cm): 21.5
Height
(in): 12
diam
(in): 6
Length
(in): 8
Techniques
japanned
decoration
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pewter
oak
silver
leather
Location
Gallery 04 : Case 02
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