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Maker(s):unknown
Culture:British
Title:Figure of a lamb
Date Made:1770-1800
Type:Household Accessory
Materials:ceramic: soft-paste porcelain; overglaze polychrome enamels
Place Made:Great Britain: England: Staffordshire
Measurements:Overall: 2 x 2 7/8 x 1 3/4 in; 5.1 x 7.3 x 4.4 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2023.28.21
Credit Line:Gift of Anne K. Groves
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
The ewe with iron-red eyes and mouth and a tiny sprig-patterned white coat, and modeled with her head turned to the right, lying on a conformingly-shaped base painted in iron-red and green with a berry-vine border. Molded in two halves, hollow lamb painted with small scattered flowers over the lamb and a border of small flowers at the base. D. M. & P. Manheim dealer label inside base. Condition: Both ears with firing flaws and resulting chips, the footrim with two original chips; and the porcelain slightly misfired and speckled.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain

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