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Description: | Public:
Two-tiered money box, red earthenware, decorated with applied reliefs in white earthenware beneath a lead glaze.
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Two-tiered money box in the form of thrown onion shape on flat turned base with horizontal slot pierced at shoulder, surmounted by second slightly smaller onion shape, also with pierced horizontal slot. Applied relief decoration repeated on each tier, of small circular pellets of white earthenware impressed with seven-petalled rosette motifs applied in a bib beneath money slot, row of same pellets immediately above slot and around collar between two tiers. High relief pinched pellets of white clay representing tiny birds applied in evenly spaced rows over shoulder and sides of both tiers, giving spiky appearance. Large finial to top tier in the form of a simple bird with applied white eyes and wings. Warm lead glaze giving deep red brown body and yellow reliefs.
Technique: thrown
Technique: applied relief
Technique: lead-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
money box made in Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe, 1850=1900 (circa), (1923.169). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2391 | Go to resource |
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