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

  • Common name Leafield redware, west Oxfordshire
  • Class Domed Money box
  • Height 134mm
  • Identifier PW247
  • Production centre Leafield, west Oxfordshire
  • Distribution regional
  • Use for saving coins
  • Date predates 1905 AD
  • Detail Cuckoo on the nest finial
  • Published in Stebbing, Rhodes, Mellor 1980, Fig 25, 22-4
  • Historic context private collection of potter's widow
  • Potter George Franklin, died 1905 AD
  • Collector Percy Manning
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