Earthenware serving bowl with mulberry colored transfer-print pattern "Canova." Landscape scene with urn-on-plinth and trees in the foreground. In the midground is a waterway with figures on a boat and buildings on a far bank. Geometric border pattern with small hanging bellflowers.
bowls (vessels)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Classical
floral patterns
sailing vessels
urns
Bowl, Serving
Triangle
Bellflower
Urn
Sailing vessel
Gondola
Classical Figure
Water
Mountain
Tower
Bowl, Serving
"[striding lion] / CANOVA [in scroll cartouche] / T . MAYER . LONGPORT" (printed)
Canova
Mayer, Thomas (Maker)
Longport, England, Staffordshire
2 (H), 9 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Hicks
1980.260.47
Longport (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)
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