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Pot-lid
Pot-lid, earthenware, roughly oblong shpae with rounded lobes to either end, straight-sided flange and convex top; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'Alexandra Palace 1873' (although this title is not recorded on the lid), showing Alexandra Palace with in the foreground a large crowd of figures, some on horseback and some in carriages, the scene is not enclosed by a border. The glazed crazed, the rim of the flange and the rim of the top of the lid chipped. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close fitting wooden frame of the same shape as the pot-lid and painted black.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32811
Acquisition
Bequest, 20/1/1981
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.4
Length
(cm): 13.7
Length
(cm): 18.1
Width
(cm): 7.5
Width
(cm): 11.9
Height
(in): 15
Length
(in): 5
Length
(in): 7
Width
(in): 2
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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