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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Ampulla, earthenware, standing on a cylindrical-sided spreading foot, the body in the form of an elongated ovoid shape to the shoulder, then sharpli inverted with a domed shoulder, high narrow cylindrical neck tapering slightly inwards and surmounted by a bell-shaped mouth, a single plain upright handle from the shoulder to the neck, some plaster restoration to the handle; a black glaze to the top of the foot, lower body, upper neck and the original parts of the handle, the rest of the body covered with a cream coloured glaze, crudely transfer-printed in brown and overpainted in green, red and orange with to the upper body a scene showing a seated female figure and a standing male figure, both clad in classical costume, with between them a classical pillar, a border of Greek key shapes around the top of the body, a stylized design of scrolls and foliage in red-orange to the shoulder below the handle, a border of diamond shapes to the base of the neck.
