Ewer and basin, Lampetkan, The round can rest on a curved, six-lobed foot with a low straight-walled base. At the top of the foot is a rosette of hanging leaves. The base is driven with alternating cartouch-shaped and triangular fields that are filled in with scale patterns and surrounded by frames composed of soft ornaments. The egg-shaped body rises above this and is driven by four arched fields with allegorical representations of the continents, surrounded by frames composed of soft ornaments. Africa is represented as a scantily clad man with a bow and arrow, Europe as a crowned woman with


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