Footbath

Dimensions:

• Length: 20.5 inches

Description:

Exhibited here is an elaborately decorated earthenware footbath printed in blue underglaze in the Musicians pattern. 

The pattern that surrounds the footbath consists of  selected vignettes of musical scenes in a village or rural setting.  They were selected from the seven distinct patterns that make up the Musicians complete design:  1) villagers dancing to bagpipes, 2) villagers linking hands around a pole bearing six spheres which may be lanterns, 3) a woman singing while another accompanies on a spinet, 4)  a couple standing before a church with spire, 5) a pipe organ, and 6) a string quartet playing from music on a circular table, and 7) four gentlemen drinking and smoking at a table accompanied by two fiddlers on a balcony.  Spode printed these scenes in combination or  individually on a variety of toilet wares and other useful objects. A hand bowl and extinguisher tray, or  candle snuffer, are other examples also included in this exhibit.

Drakard/Holdway Pattern Number P706

Transfer Printed 31

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