Lid
Date: 1860s
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions:
14.5 cm diameter
Classification: Archives
Object number: 1968.44
Label text:This lid was one of the original transfer prints designed by Jesse Austin. It probably covered a pot containing food. The earliest pot lids belonged to pots of macassar grease (bear grease used in men's hair) Title "the Swing" Staffordshire England
DescriptionPottery lid from a drug pot, framed in black frame, inner picture: ceramic, glazed picture of girl or angel swinging and 5 girls around her.
Not on display
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