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whether lion or bear it is impossible to say, that half emerges 

 from the flowery foreground. 



Lustred ware was in great favour. A cheap kind was 

 sold at fairs, but odd pieces of better make found their way 

 into cottages, where they were greatly prized. The large tea- 

 pot is nearly a foot long from spout to handle. It has a band 

 of dull buff on the body, but the rest is covered with dark 

 copper lustre. The small jug next to it is oh inches high. 

 It is of a bright copper lustre with bands of yellow buff, 



Teapot and Muo of Landscape Ware 



almost the colour of yolk of egg. The small teapot to the 

 left is very prettily coloured, with a cream ground ; its edging 

 bands and lid-knob are of lustre, and there are flowers of 

 dull blue mixed with lustre. 



The teacup is bright copper, with a wide band of cream- 

 •colour divided into panels by uprights. The panels have 

 alternately a diagonal trellis and a flower-spray. The teapot 

 on the right is of bright copper lustre. On the body is a 

 band of ornament whose ground colour is a subdued green ; on 

 this are white flowers in relief edged with red, and leaves of a 

 paler green. The lid has also a green band. 



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