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English Transferware Bedpan

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1825-1850

GUSN

GUSN-3262

Description

Circular basin with wide, rolled rim and cylindrical projection at the side; decorated with blue transfer print of a bucolic landscape with a building enclosed by a floral border; the projecting neck has a large, floral border edged with diagonal stripes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bedpans (containers)
pearlware
transfer printing
Pearlware
Transfer Printed
BEDPAN

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 x 15 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1046

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