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Pot-lid, earthenware, circular shape with cylindrical flange and convex top, the flange partially obscured by the frame; the upperside of the lid decorated with an underglaze polychrome transfer-print of 'The Poultry Woman' (although this title is not recorded on the lid), showing a male figure smoking a long pipe and seated on a barrel and a standing female figure holding a plucked chicken with a dead cockerel on a table in front of her, a small dog stands before the table, a town landscape in the background, to the lower right of the print are the initials 'J.A.', any border which may enclose the print is obscured by the frame. The glaze crazed. The pot-lid mounted for display in a close-fitting circular wooden frame painted black, a circular piece of brown paper is stuck across the bottom of the frame.