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1834-1848
GUSN-2790
Staffordshire transfer-print ironstone child's chamberpot; squat, globular body on low ring foot with rounded outflared rim and strap handle; light-blue transferprint scenes of exotic buildings in a landscape and leafy vine trim, marked IRONSTONE/FRIBURG/G. PHILLIPS, LONGPORT.
chamber pots
ironstone (pottery)
throwing (pottery technique)
transfer printing
underglazing
pastoral
Ironstone
Underglazed
Transfer Printed
Thrown
Pastoral
POT, CHAMBER
On the bottom underside is a maker's mark, the text of it reads: ""IRONSTONE/FRIEBUG/G. PHILLIPS LONGPORT""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Phillips, George (Maker)
Longport, England, Staffordshire
3.25 x 5.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1240
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