Round earthenware soap dish with moulded handle on both sides and decorated with design taken from primary design. Exterior and interior decorated with encircling shawl fringe border. The soap dish has an earthenware insert, perforated with holes to allow water to drain.

Name for Doulton pottery at Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, established c. 1877.

Doulton & Co (Burslem works)

Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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A4260-3 Soap dish and insert, 'Royle's Patent Toilet Aquarius', earthenware, Doulton & Co, Burslem, England, c. 1885-1890

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Soap dish with insert

Object No. A4260-3

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