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Pot-lid
Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with cylindrical flange and slightly rounded top; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'The Bear Pit' (although this title is not recorded on the lid), showing a zoo setting with a bear climbing up a pole in a round enclosure surrounded by people and beyond an enclosure with lions and a domed enclosure with an ostrich, the scene enclosed by a circular dentilled border. The glaze slightly crazed.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32776
Creation/Production
Pratt, F. & R.and Co.
Austin, Jesse
Date: 1850 ca –
Acquisition
Bequest, 20/1/1981
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2
diam
(cm): 8.1
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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