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Cauldron

Ref: 2213
  • Detail

    Iron, with painted decoration

    18 x 25.2 cm (diameter)

    Probably French, 1860s

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    The painted embellishment is based on Romanesque decoration dating from the twelfth century.

    A cauldron of almost identical form and construction (private collection), has a scheme of decoration deriving from plates in Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, 1856.  This second cauldron has stamped letters under the base: ‘I C’ and ‘PA…’