Pearlware blue transfer-printed basin with alternating repeating patterns of an urn with flowers and a sailboat surrounded with rosettes and a rectangular panel with flowers and patera in lower corners around interior rim and exterior body. Central scene of classical style urn and trees in the foreground overlooking a body of water with a gondola and temple style building in the background.
basins (vessels)
pearlware
transfer printing
glazing (coating)
earthenware
Vessel
Basin
Basin
CANOVA / T. MAYER - LONGPORT (printed)
Mayer, T. & J. (Maker)
4 1/2 (H), 12 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Miss Margaret Jewell
1932.2588
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