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Basin
Basin, earthenware, standing on a high straight-sided tapering foot-rim, rounded curving sides, flaring rim, the rim lobed and moulded with anthemions; transfer-printed in black with to the interior bottom of the bowl an Italianate scene showing to one side a church-like with a castellated tower and to the other side a monopteros, between the two buildings are two figures, in the foreground are a number of flowers and foliage, in the background a landscape of trees, buildings and hills, the scene enclosed within a circular dentilled border, wide border to the exterior and the interior sides of flowers, foliage and scrolls on a stippled black ground surmounted by a narrow dentilled band.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31900
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 13
diam
(cm): 33.9
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 13
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
glaze
Location
In store
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