Soap dish

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Collection Type

Household accessories

Date

1876

GUSN

GUSN-14328

Description

Plain bowl wtih foot ring and top border of molded bamboo staves; pierced dish shaped fitted insert with blue transfer-printed image of a windmill; domed lid with molded crossed pattern of bamboo around a twig and leaf finial and blue T.P. image of sheep in a landscape repeated 4 times around sides.

Details

Descriptive Terms

soap dishes
toilet sets (washing sets)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
tin (metal)
Set, Toilet
Set, Toilet

Inscription

Impressed on underside: ""COPELAND/ THE ASHBURNE/ F/ B1""; also impressed British registry mark which translates to date of June 9, 1876.

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Copeland (Maker)

Location of Origin

Stoke-on-Trent, England, Staffordshire

Dimensions

3 1/4 (H), 5 3/8 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.341.6

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