Long-necked bottle

Inventory number: St 418

Around the body runs a frieze of stylised superimposed and juxtaposed flowers. Neck finished with a stripe of ochre slip and three undulating stripes (white, green, blue). A fourth stripe of ochre slip serves as a basis for vertical lines which cross the stripes above. Foot finished with a stripe of ochre slip. A pattern of ochre dots below the neck and above the foot.

Material:

Creamware

Technique:

Slip-cast form. Stencilled decoration of matt blue and green enamel on a white ground, filled in with matt chestnut enamel and ochre slip. Chestnut enamelled inside.

Workshop:

Boch. La Louvière

Form number:

953, impressed

Decoration number:

D1319 & W in ochre

Marks:

Blue rectangular stamp: she-wolf mark - Boch Frères - Keramis - Made in Belgium

Dimensions:

H : 273 - C : 44 - B : 80

Location:

Keramis, La Louvière

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