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| The Sunderland Egg "A Horse from the Fair" 1840-1850 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
This lead-glazed earthenware egg, the size of a hen’s egg, is decorated with transfer-printed illustrations in purple. On one side, it is adorned with a party of men and women in a rowing boat; and, on the other side with a galloping horse, with the inscription: “A Horse from the Fair.”
This egg was made in Sunderland, England between ca. 1840-1850. It exists purely to be decorative.
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