Cleadon Pot

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Culture: Chinese. | Material: Ceramic; Pottery; Stoneware; Metal; silver. | Accession No: CG 050. | Current Location: The Hunt Museum Limerick. | Dimensions (cm): H 13 x W 7 x D 7. Description: A crackle-glaze celadon pot, perhaps a brush pot, with a removable, silver lid and a silver mount around the rim. The design on the lid is in repoussé with flowers and leaves between three cup-like designs with scrolled handles. The lid is marked with a leopards head crowned, lion passant, a date letter N within a rectangular shield and a makers mark (a three-leaved clover). The mark shows that the mounts were made in London in 1550. Chinese pot. Date Made: 17th century AD; 16th century AD (lid),16th Lid