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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 flat back, the hand hole in the front has an arched cover over the top. It has a knop on top of three folded lobes in front of a small handle. The salt kit is glazed a dark brown, sgraffito decorated on the sides with flowers in white slip. The front of the salt kit below the hand hole has sgraffito initials and a date within a chain border.
- Production date start
- 1800
- Production date end
- 1810
- Period
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2001.7507
- Alternative number
- 84/a
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.62
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 15001727
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 250.0 mm
- Base diameter 130.0 mm
- Whole length 150.0 mm
Production
- Creators
- Howcans Pottery (Pottery)
- Location
- Ovenden
- School/style
- Slipware
