Spill holder
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
65 mm (Height); 70 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 545598
Summary
Small earthenware spill holder. Flattened globe, made to resemble a nest with a bird and two chicks, chicks being menaced by snake. Nest decorated to resemble moss, painted green, pink and brown. Adult bird has blue gilded wings, all birds have blue beaks. Top pierced with a round hole, gilded edge. Paper sticky labels read - Snake and nest - 40/-., take care black ......,? in nest
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in Miss Ward's will in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Snake and nest - 40/-, take care black ....., ? in nest (sticky labels)