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Jar
Large jar, of porcellaneous stoneware, standing on a broad, slightly tapered foot rim, globular body, short, slightly everted collar neck; the foot rim and lower body with a dark brown glaze, the remaining upper body with a dark honey coloured glaze, the lip rim, a pale creamy colour, smooth and unglazed; the body painted centrally with a galloping horse in dark brown, a stocky cob type animal with feathered fetlocks, a lighter, chestnut mane and tail both freely flowing and an expressive face, the lower portions left in the dark honey colour with a large, white tinged eye; the animal surrounded by freely painted spiralling thick lines in dark brown, the glaze highly crazed throughout.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32178
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 15th century
Acquisition
Gift, 28/11/1952
Given by Misses M. & G. Davies
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17.3
diam
(cm): 22
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
Material
stoneware
glaze
Location
In store
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