Overglaze
Printing on earthenware and stoneware 1800-1900
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Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery 1882.435
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Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts Date: c. 1805-1815 Dimensions:
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... BACK TO CATALOG INDEX
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