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1830-1850
GUSN-2791
Staffordshire transfer-print pearlware chamber pot, of squat globular form with a low straight foot, a flat overhanging rim and a strap handle. It has a underglaze blue transfer-print decoration of figures in a country landscape with cows and houses in the forground and background, as well as a conforming design to the interior center and a floral design on the rim.
chamber pots
pearlware
throwing (pottery technique)
transfer printing
underglazing
floral patterns
Pearlware
Underglazed
Transfer Printed
Thrown
Landscape
Floral
POT, CHAMBER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
5.125 x 9.75 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1241
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