Small covered sugar bowl of caneware decorated in the "Nerots" pattern, the bulbous bowl with a central band of stylized green flowers and blue berries with six bright red birds resting on it and six small line-drawn butterflies scattered about, with two short, stout, slightly curved handles, the domed cover with a scalloped edge in blue underglaze enamel with a modified fish scale pattern likewise in blue at the indentations, with ball finial.

Covered Sugar Bowl

Wedgwood

1930

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