A selection of ceramics through the ages (5 second delay) Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Collections:
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@ the Ashmolean Museum		 • Early Europe & Near East
• Classical to Medieval
• Europe from 1500
• Oriental & Islamic
2000 years of pottery forms and shapes
Modern AD 1720 -


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  • Common name Rhenish stoneware, Westerwald type
  • Class Mineral water container
  • Height 285mm
  • Identifier PW157a
  • Production centre in the Westerwald district, north Rhineland, Germany
  • Distribution throughout Europe and to America
  • Use for transport and sale of mineral water
  • Date 18th century AD
  • Detail blue circle around lower portion of neck, the cross, circle and `P' are stamped
  • Published in Bruce-Mitford 1939, Pl XIV, 138
  • Historic context Well 5 in a property in the north eastern suburb of Oxford
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