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Culture:English
Title:toy cream pot
Date Made:1790-1810
Type:Food Service; Recreational Gear
Materials:ceramic: lead-glazed cream-colored earthenware (creamware) with underglaze oxide and overglaze enamel
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire
Measurements:overall: 2 7/8 x 2 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.; 7.3025 x 6.35 x 3.4925 cm
Accession Number:  HD 78.121
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Wilmer H. Cordes
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
English miniature or toy creamware cream pot with a coil handle and pinched spout decorated in iron red and blackish-brown. The black-banded rim is over a band of fern-like design in a herringbone shape over a narrow black band; the handle edges and footrim are banded in black. There is a group of four small dots in a diamond shape on the base. This jug may be part of a set with the cup and saucer, HD 80.112/A, also given by the same donor. This pot could have been made by Josiah Wedgwood but is unmarked. See Bryding Adams, The Dwight and Lucille Beeson Collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art, p. 188, no. 40, acc no. 1990.268.1-.11.

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