Vieux Paris decoration: white body, colorless glaze. (b) Bulbous body indented to foot; indents and flares to rim. Applied handle with thumb rest and spine. Domed lid (a) with beaded conical finial. Gilt trim on finial, lid rim, belly and foot.
chamber pots
accessories
gilding
stoneware (pottery)
Stoneware
Vieux Paris
Gilded
Florence
POT, CHAMBER
Parisian Procelain/Henry Allook & Co./England (printed)
2/Florence (impressed)
Vieux Paris
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Henry Alcock & Company (Maker)
Cobridge, England, Staffordshire
7 3/4 x 10 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.634
Title Soap Dish Accession Number 1970.1010
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