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stuey | 19:17 Sat 28th Feb 2015 | ChatterBank
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Following on from Horseshoes' silent butler showing this past Thursday, I have up for view this item. I imagine that this ewer was once accompanied by a basin. Any ideas as to its age? It is 12" high at its highest point; 7" wide across the opening; and 12.5" from the end of the handle to the tip of the lip: http://i61.tinypic.com/2yuyonk.jpg
There are no pottery markings on it.
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Can't really help Stuey. Looks very much like one my Aunty Lalla had down in Wales, that must be about 50 years ago. Like you I think it would have had a bowl. The maid would have brought it up to the bedroom in the morning filled with hot water for the daily ablutions! They came back into fashion a good few years ago, purely as a decorative item. Sorry can't be of more help, didn't want you to think you were being ignored!
And here am I thinking that we're all going on the road to fame!
As a child there was a wooden washstand in our house with cut out hole for the china bowl and the jug sat in it. That was 60 years ago.
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Mrs stuey, who is no "teenager", knows that it belonged to her grandmother and perhaps maybe even her great-grandmother
My gran had a set very similar to what grasscarp described,she died in 1956 and it disappeared into another branch of the family.
I think is victorian cream ware

mass produced in the nineteenth century - this one is 1880-1900
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Unfortunately, items in sets often get separated when things are dispersed amongst the family members. A good example is dinnerware sets.
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Mass production was a positive feature of Victorian England...Great for the economy.

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