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Figure 134: Slipware jug with clear, honey-coloured glaze by Michael Cardew, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, c. 1938. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Height 29.5 cm.

English slipware dish, “The Pelican in Her Piety,” by Thomas Toft, c. 1670; in the British Museum

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