Cachepot
19th Century Staffordshire Cachepot
circa 1825 (Date manufactured/created)
transfer-printed pearlware
earthenware
Depicts Indian temple. A cachepot is a French term for what is usually called in modern English a "planter", namely a decorative container or "overpot" for a plant and its flowerpot for indoors use, usually with no drainage hole at the bottom, or sometimes with a matching saucer. It is intended to be more attractive than the terracotta (or today, plastic) flowerpot in which the plant grows, and to keep water off furniture surfaces.
Gift of Miss Alice E. Kingsbury
X70.51