Mustard Pot with Cover

Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

About 1770

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Heavy thistle-shaped vase that tapers inward to a cylindrical base. The vase's exterior is smooth in texture and is green, varying in tone from gray-green to olive green and khaki. The exterior is flecked with brown specks. The exterior has impressed, horizontal lines around the vase's form, irregular in size but fairly consistent in placement along the vase. The vase's interior is glazed dark green and has thin, raised horizontal lines corresponding in placement to the exterior's horizontal lines.
Deep, round, footed bowl of red earthenware, the sides are decorated with an alternating pattern of horizontal lines and stylized sheaves of wheat, the bright blue glaze of the body (the foot is left unglazed) pools in the crevices of the design to leave the color of the clay visible on the raised portions, the glaze also thins at the rim to reveal the color of the clay beneath.
Cast-iron buckle pierced at each end with rosettes, acanthus leaves and stars.
Bust in profile right.