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Drinking pot, stone-paste, standing on a tapered foot rim, bulbous lower body, tapering at shoulder, everted mouth; twin horizontal rustic-style handles, asymmetrically moulded; interspersed with twin L-shaped drinking spouts, joined to the body below the lip rim with short horizontal spurs; the whole, with a white ground, parts of the foot rim unglazed; at the waist, a panelled border in blue, turquoise and iron-red of panels containing arabesque inspired designs interspersed with panels with lattice work and petal designs, above this a lattice work panel to neck with stylised leaf forms, with a dark blue dentilled border to lip rim and arabic script in black to interior rim of mouth; the handles with swirling foliate designs; the spouts with iron-red to the upper portions the lower portions with an extension of the central panelled border.

Gwendoline and Margaret Davies are best known for their collection of French Impressionist art. Less well known is their interest in ancient and modern pottery. This pot was purchased by the Davies sisters in 1920 from an exhibition of 'Ancient Art' at Leicester Galleries.