by Tom Licence | Apr 19, 2019
Part of a soap/ toiletries. toothbrush holder, from a ceramic washstand set. It may or may not have had a lid. Simple red/brown transfer-printed design to exterior.
by Tom Licence | May 16, 2016
Ceramic washstand basin, with transfer-printed classical design in red/ brown, showing female classical figures, possibly the muses. Discarded (broken) at Brockdish rectory, 1870s or earlier
by Tom Licence | Mar 17, 2016
Mouded ewer (washstand jug) for a dolls’ house, with rib and dot design. Undamaged. Found amid domestic ash and refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Feb 26, 2016
Hand-turned wooden dolly pegs for hanging out clothes on the washing line, found in waterlogged ash mixed with domestic waste from the 1890s. Sometimes these pegs were made by gypsies. Normally wooden items do not survive.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Brown stoneware, incised ‘Glessen Blue’, with a stamp from Bourne of Denby. This contained blue, which could be mixed with the wash to whiten the linen.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Items from a wash-stand set, including a ewer, soap bowl and vase, decorated in gold and painted colours with birds and foliage. Doulton.
by Tom Licence | Dec 24, 2014
Wash-stand jug (called a ewer), with gold decoration. For pouring water into a wash basin.
