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Earthenware basin with blue transfer-print pattern depicting three figures viewing a classical ruin beside a waterway. One of the figures sits on a fallen column, horned goats graze in the near distance. The scene is printed in the bottom of the basin bowl and repeats, in a smaller size, around the outside of the bowl. The interior rim is printed with floral sprays over a patterned ground.
basins (vessels)
earthenware
transfer printing
glazing (coating)
Vessel
Basin
Basin
" PORCELIAN / [?] / J R" (impressed)
Unknown
4 7/7 (H), 14 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. E. Stuart Pratt
1969.471A
Title Wash pitcher Accession Number 1969.471B
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