A Polychrome Painted Moroccan Pottery Vase c.1870 antiques The year 1831 on the

The year 1831 on the seas saw Charles Darwin embarking on his historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle and Admiral James C Ross reaching the magnetic North Pole

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and flesh coloured painted plaster legs with the original black leather shoes

A Polychrome Painted Moroccan Pottery Vase c.1870 antiques The year 1831 on theOrigin: MoroccanPeriod: Mid Late 19thCProvenance: Private Collection, purchased from a Country House Sale, Devon, mid 1980s. Date: c. 1860 80Height: 10. 75Base Diameter: 5 The attractive pottery vase of gourd form, painted with foliate and geometric designs in blue, turquoise and yellow and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century Morocco. There are old repairs as photographed, colour run and some chipped losses. Moroccans have a