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It has a compressed globular body, tubular neck under a bowl-like top and lid, a curvaceous handle and outward-curving spout.  The decoration comprises horizontal bands of undulating floral stems, petals and leaves.  The knob of the lid is broken off.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"earthenware","id":"x29356"},{"text":"lead glaze","id":"AAT233430"},{"text":"slip","id":"AAT10459"},{"text":"ceramic","id":"AAT235507"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"glazed earthenware with under-glaze slip decoration","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"},{"text":"Earthenware","id":"THES48964"}],"styles":[{"text":"19th century last quarter","id":"x36209"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2010EA0975"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"137","id":"THES49876"},"free":"","case":"16","shelf":"3","box":""},{"current":{"text":"137","id":"THES49876"},"free":"","case":"16","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Ewer","id":""}],[{"text":"lid","id":"AAT45712"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bombay","id":"x30829"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1885","earliest":"1880-01-01","latest":"1889-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased from Lady Ilbert, The Speaker's Court, Palace of Westminster","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"26","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"including the lid","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"18.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased from Lady Ilbert, The Speaker's Court, Palace of Westminster. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Museum records (Asia Department registers and/or Central Inventory) as part of a 2023 provenance research project.\r\n\r\nR.P. 1921/958","historicalContext":"The Bombay School of Art's ceramic productions were traded under the name of Wonderland Art Pottery under the direction of George Wilkins Terry, who had been appointed as its first drawing master in 1857.  The pottery flourished from the mid 1870s until about 1890, but limped on after Terry's retirement at that time into the  the early years of the 20th century. Early wares were influenced by those manufactured in Sind as Terry set up his workshop with a Sindhi craftsman called Nur Muhammad. Soon, however, much of the decoration came to be influenced by the cave paintings at Ajanta, which  had been discovered earlier in the century, and were copied by the Schools students over a period lasting from 1872-1885, elements of which were adapted and used to decorate the ceramics in an attempt to encourage traditions of Indian art rather than European ones. Liberty imported some wares to sell in its Regent Street shop in London See Stronge, Susan,'Wonderland', <u>Ceramics: The International Journal of Ceramics and Glass</u>, London, issue V, August 1987, pp. 48-53.","briefDescription":"Domestic, red earthenware, Bombay, 1885\n\newer; Domestic, red earthenware, Bombay, 1885","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Bryant, Julius and Weber, Susan; John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London Newhaven: Yale University Press, 2017","id":"AUTH353890"},"details":"fig. 2.12, p. 49","free":""}],"production":"made at the Bombay School of Art","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["IM.54-1921","IM.54A-1921"],"accessionNumberNum":"54","accessionNumberPrefix":"IM","accessionYear":1921,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Ewer","Lid"],"assets":["2016JF0497"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-25","availableToBook":false}}