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Earthenware sugar bowl with lid. White oval, lobed, bulbous body with hand-painted blue bands around neck, rim, cap finial, and blue accents on scroll, tab handles. On bowl, brown scene of fife player standing on one leg while woman listens, in grove of trees. Cover has brown scene of circular pavilions.
sugar bowls
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
earthenware
molding (forming)
landscape figures
Bowl, Serving
Bowl, Sugar
Fife Player
Woman
Tree
Pavilion
Bowl, Sugar
" 708 / J.B.M Jr." and "708 / J.B Morris Jr" (Two labels affixed to interior of lid)
Unknown
7 x 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Mr. John B. Morris, Jr.
1939.607AB
Probably County of Staffordshire (England, United Kingdom) [county]
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