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Ceramic Po & Soap Dish
80147
Height
5 1/4" (13.5 cm)
Width
8" (20.5 cm)
Depth
10" (25.5 cm)
A hand painted ceramic Chamber Pot with Soap Dish.
The scenes to these two toiletry ceramics show a reversal of fortune with a tiger in a landscape that extends around the bowl. The soap dish shows a mounted hunter shooting at the tiger, while the po shows a hunter being attacked by a tiger whilst two other men watch from the far riverbank. The rims of the bowls have a gilt edge with further gilt decoration to the handle of the po. There are no maker's marks. Circa 1840.
Size of Po is given.
The scenes to these two toiletry ceramics show a reversal of fortune with a tiger in a landscape that extends around the bowl. The soap dish shows a mounted hunter shooting at the tiger, while the po shows a hunter being attacked by a tiger whilst two other men watch from the far riverbank. The rims of the bowls have a gilt edge with further gilt decoration to the handle of the po. There are no maker's marks. Circa 1840.
Size of Po is given.
Height
5 1/4" (13.5 cm)
Width
8" (20.5 cm)
Depth
10" (25.5 cm)
Year
Circa 1840
Medium
Ceramic
Exhibitions
The Great Escape
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