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White clay body with buff colored under glaze ground. Molded body in rectangular form with ribbed and lobed corners on sides that cant inward to conforming flat well. Decorated with blank transfer printed decoration: Mr. Pickwick in the Pound, taken from Pickwick by Charles Dickens, 1837/original illustrations by R. Seymour + PHIZ
vegetable dishes
transfer printing
ceramic (material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
goat
men (male humans)
pig
Dish, Serving
Dish, Vegetable
Unidentified Ceramic
Transfer Printed
Man
Literature
Pig
Goat
Dish, Vegetable
Reg No. 41938/Ridgeway/England (impressed)
Dickens, Charles
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
R. Seymour & Phiz. (Printmaker)
Ridgways (Manufacturer)
England; Hanley, England, STAFFORDSHIRE
1.875 x 7.875 x 9.625 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.789
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