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Toilet pot and cover
Toilet pot, soft-paste porcelain, rounded foot-rim, cylindrical sides, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a pear with leaves and a branch; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the toilet pot a panoramic landscape with mythological figures riding fabulous sea creatures and in the distance Naples and Vesuvius, the cover painted with three small European birds, gilt lines around the foot-rim and liprim of the toilet pot and the rim of the cover, the pear finial painted in oranges, yellows, browns and greens. A chip to the lip-rim of the toilet pot.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35839
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.7
diam
(cm): 7.6
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
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