Object Number: N8664

Collection: Applied Art

Object Name: barrel

Description: Creamish-white body. Broad waist, tapering gently to narrow top and bottom which are inset, with flattish rims; ten ridges on both tapers (including top and bottom edges); circular bung hole with stepped surround on centre band. Painted in coloured enamels - orange-red, pink, blue, yellow, green, purple, brown: on centre band two different flower sprays, one with chrysanthemum,'Fifield' tulip,etc, the other with pink rose, pink multi-petalled flower, etc; small blue-flower sprig above bung-hole. Ridges painted in bands of pink/blue/pink edged with brown lines; radiating brown lines on bung-hole surround; on each end, concentric brown and reddish-brown circles around central solid blue and brown spot. Inscribed in brown script around bung-hole: 'T E' 'L C // 1829'. This forms a pair with Na351.