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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Touchdry, post: 1025013, member: 12381&quot;]<img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/nevers1800.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/nevers2800.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.thrownandfired.com/images/nevers6800.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>A friend of mine, moving away, was wondering whether to throw out some of her long deceased fathers things ... including this! (No, I do not mean that he was alive during the Revolution itself - he was an archaeologist who liked digging up things and putting them back together - things like this!)</p><p><br /></p><p>He had made a start, but for some reason, never completed the job.</p><p><br /></p><p>This, according to him, is a mid to late 18th century Nevers, France, pitcher, the decoration being inspired by the Middle Eastern craftsmen brought to France around the 16th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about you, but I would have thought this belongs in a museum rather than in landfill! So, I kept it!</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I thought I would show it to you. Perhaps make you gasp ... or laugh ... or cry ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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