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Owl jug

Art Funded
1991
Dimensions
18 cm
Vendor
Phillips de Pury
Owl jug & cover.

Made in two parts and then decorated with hand-modelled details. Decoration achieved by laying on a coat of slip on which lines of contrasting colours are slip-trailed. These lines are mingled together after the manner of marbling paper (feathering).

Provenance

Phillips 7/3/90, lot 217.

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