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Bowl, greyish white salt-glaze stoneware, slip-cast, supported on a wheel-thrown waisted foot (tool marks inside footring and lathe marks on the base). Plain flaring rim, and the lower body moulded with gadroons and lunettes below ten relief panels, comprising 1) a crowned double headed eagle with flowers and birds below, and two masks and scrolls above; 2) three women at a table drinking tea with a tea-kettle on a hearth between a teapot and a cup and saucer below; 3) naked figure who carries a globe on his shoulder beckoning to a small boy with two cupids holding a crown over an altar below; 4) cloaked man with sword and grapes and woman with fan in ?Tudor dress; 5) fox and goose surmounted by a foliated medallion of a bearded and capped head between two masks; 6) trumpeting cherub astride a lion with a swimming swan below; 7) robed man and woman in crown-like caps; 8) reclining nude woman by a vine with a unicorn below; 9) man with bow and staff walking with two dogs by a tree containing a bird; 10) a shield of three fleur de lys between a chevron above a running deer and a bird.

"This bowl is one of a distinctive group of white salt-glazed stoneware tea and coffee wares, all early examples of the use of slip-casting in plaster moulds by the Staffordshire pottery industry. In this early period, the moulds appear to have been cut by inexperienced block-cutters, resulting in designs which appear quite crude. The ten panels on this bowl are a mixture of heraldry, mythological or allegorical subjects, and scenes from daily life: 1) a crowned double-headed eagle; 2) three women drinking tea; 3) a naked figure carrying a globe on his shoulder; 4) a cloaked man with a sword and grapes and a woman in Tudor dress; 5) a fox, a goose and a medallion of a bearded head; 6) a trumpeting cherub astride a lion with a swimming swan below; 7) a robed man and woman in crown-like caps; 8) a reclining nude woman and a unicorn below; 9) a man with bow and staff walking with two dogs; 10) a shield (a chevron between three fleur-de-lis), a running deer and a bird. "