Art and Architecture Collection > Historic Pottery and Porcelain

Vase. Showing obverse and reverse, the latter with typical First Empire gilded decoration. Painted with figure subject of lady with hawk. On base is inscribed - "A Merlin small she held upon her Handle,/ With Hoode and Jesses gallantlie bedighte,/ But little did she neede or Hoode or Bande,/ Could he but gaze on her, full safe were he from flyghte" (Old Ballad). Marked "SPODE" in black. H. 8 in.

Item/Page/Plate Number: opp. p. 168

Hayden, Arthur.  "Spode & his successors: a history of the pottery: Stoke-on-Trent 1765-1865."  London: Cassell & Co., 1925.

Call number MPGO, located in the Art & Architecture Collection, Room 300.

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