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Simple profile cartoon drawing of Paolo Orsi, slightly balding, bespectacled, with moustache & pointed beard; wearing a suit & tie. Signed "W.R. Lawson / Siracusa.1929. / 'Deus sit vobiscum'". Framed behind glass, in a simple black frame, with "P. Orsi / Syracuse April 1929" in pencil on the wooden back. Gummed label on back identifying framer: "From J.P. Ballard, Reading Fine Art Gallery, 21, Cross Street, Reading. / Printseller, Mount Cutter, Gilder and Picture Frame Manufacturer. / Dept for Windsor & Newton's Specialties./ For Repeat Orders please quote No. 4492" (4492 written in pencil).
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(a)Part of the rim of an open jug of some sort. The inside segment of the rim is painted black, with numerous small bits having been chipped off. Moving outwards, the rim consists of the inside of the pot wall, which then splays out in a flat top rim, and then falls down again in a second wall that is left dangling from the outer rim. So, moving from the inside outwards on the underside, there is a valley of about 1.0 wide and 1.5 deep until the top of the second rim (which is peaked) is reached. The outward facing side of this downward pointed rim consists of alternating lines of black dots and thin black lines which run around the entire outer diameter of the rim. There are two rows of dots and two lines, alternating which each other, all of which are heavily worn. The top part of the rim, which would be facing upwards if the pot were complete, is about 2.2 wide and flat, marked with black raised lines that repeat about every .3 and which start at the outer edge and are 1.7 long, and painted black. These lines are heavily worn. There are also two significant chips in the top of this rim, each about 2 long.
(b)Another part of the same rim to the same vessel. The same dot and line pattern runs around the outer diameter. On top the lines which are thicker at the end pointing into the pot are repeated, a palmette decorates the larger flat area of the handle region.
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