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Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts

Date: 1805-1815

Dimensions:

  • Height: 1.26 in (3.20 cm)
  • Length: 9.72 in (24.70 cm)
  • Width: 7.20 in (18.30 cm)

Maker: Don Pottery

Description:

Pearlware compotier printed with an allegorical figure representing Smell, from a series of the Senses. A worn painted inscription on the reverse reads 'SM...' One of three pieces surviving together from a dessert service. All three prints, as well as the painted borders representing marbling, match wares securely attributed to the Don Pottery. The shape is no.64 in the Don Pottery Shape Book, described as a Crescent Corner'd Compotier.   

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