Jug of black basalt with encaustic painting derived from the Greek oenochoe form the foot and body above the shoulder and neck are engine turned the main body with an image of Daedalus building his wings below a tear drop border that extends around the body below the shoulder with red trim around the lip and stem and a band of beading around the upper neck

Jug

Wedgwood

About 1775

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