Chamber Pot

Description

Staffordshire transfer printed pearlware chamberpot; squat, globular body on a small, rounded foot with a side strap handle; fitted lid with flat top, concave sides and ring handles; allover underglaze blue transfer print decoration with pastoral English landscape which shows figures in a landscape; landscape features a waterfall, a Palladian home and cathedral, and two swans in a pond; flat rim of pot has a floral and diamond pattern; interior center of pot shows medallion with two classical female figures in a landscape with an infant (the finding of Moses in the reeds?)