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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:L.1924.120.2 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name vessel Description Vessel made of fired clay with a brown glaze. Large, flattened oval, round-bottomed vessel with two spouts at either end and one hole on the top (saqa vonu). Four legs and a nose, resembling a turtle. Decoration of incised lines on upper half, perhaps illustrating a spine and ribs or the turtle's shell. The legs show historic conservation. From Sir Cecil Rodwell GCMG, a British colonial administrator, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, British Guiana, and Fiji (1918-1924). Handwritten note with one of the pots: 'Fijian pottery/Infant Chief's toilet set/presented to Governor Sir Cecil Rodwell/on the birth of his youngest son in Fiji, 1923'. Production place Polynesia, Fiji Production period 20th Century, early Material clay, glaze Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:L.1924.120.2
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

vessel
Description

Vessel made of fired clay with a brown glaze. Large, flattened oval, round-bottomed vessel with two spouts at either end and one hole on the top (saqa vonu). Four legs and a nose, resembling a turtle. Decoration of incised lines on upper half, perhaps illustrating a spine and ribs or the turtle's shell. The legs show historic conservation. From Sir Cecil Rodwell GCMG, a British colonial administrator, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, British Guiana, and Fiji (1918-1924). Handwritten note with one of the pots: 'Fijian pottery/Infant Chief's toilet set/presented to Governor Sir Cecil Rodwell/on the birth of his youngest son in Fiji, 1923'.
Production place

Polynesia, Fiji
Production period

20th Century, early
Material

clay, glaze

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