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Jug, earthenware, gourd-shaped body with a trumpet-shaped neck atop which sits an inverted bell-shaped spout with a flattened rim, footring with high grooved sides, loop handle; the rim of the spout and the rim of the main body are painted and glazed in black with a border of double looped lines and dots within black horizontal lines, the neck is decorated and glazed with a border of black vertical lines within black horizontal lines, the base is decorated with a wave motif border, the main body is decorated with three female figures in classical dress against a glazed black ground.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 38694
Acquisition
Gift, 1897
Given by Robert Drane
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.2
diam
(cm): 9.4
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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