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Bear-jug
Bear jug, brown stoneware, moulded in the form of a bear seated on its haunches and grasping a staff, the body of the jug cylinder-shaped with four legs and a staff protruding to the front, the body sloping inwards at the shoulder with a high cylindrical lip-rim, the head of the bear, with protruding snout, two round eyes and small prominent ears, forms the cover of the jug and also serves as a cup; the jug covered all over, apart from the lip-rim abd snout of the bear, with powdered fragments of clay, salt-glazed, large chips missing from the lip-rim and the back of the head of the bear.
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