Utilizing a bi-color transfer combination of red and teal green, the Wood potters&nbs...
Utilizing a bi-color transfer combination of red and teal green, the Wood potters have divided their "Belzoni" pattern using red for the primary scene and teal green for the border.
The "Belzoni" scene always focuses on a hunt, whether for deer as in this example or ostriches as in other examples currently available from Seekers Antiques. While the participants hunt with bow and arrow, there is something ritualistic in the depiction. Mounted on their galloping steeds, there is some formal, exotic, eastern element in their long coats, hats and the pennants each one carries. Yet the landscape of mountains, castles, lake and luscious vegetation has a distinctly European element.
The "Belzoni" border which decorates the rim, both inside and out uses a contrasting teal green colored ground here to set off clusters of grapes and reserves of vignettes from the hunt.
Finally, the Wood potters have been very generous in their choice of blank for this piece with its softly molded ribbing especially notable at the shoulder, scalloped rim, molded nose and handle detail.