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Collection Item: Salt Pig
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Object name
- Salt pig
- Object category
- Ceramic
- Object subcategory
- Country pottery
- Creators
- Howcans Pottery (Pottery)
- Description
- A salt kit of red earthenware. It is egg-shaped with a circular hand hole in the front. It has a round knop on top. The salt kit is glazed a dark brown with yellow slip crosses decorating the front and sides. A slipware inscrtiption within a dot border sits below the hand hole. The brown glaze does not extend on to the base of the salt kit.
- Production date start
- 1857
- Period
- Victorian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2001.7509
- Alternative number
- MM228
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.62
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 15001728
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 24.0 cm
- Base diameter 12.5 cm
- Whole width 18.5 cm
Production
- Creators
- Howcans Pottery (Pottery)
- Location
- Ovenden
- School/style
- Slipware
