Large Glazed White Garden Urns with Terracotta Highlights
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- Wrythen - A spirally twisted ornamentation most commonly found on antique glass, silver, ceramics and furniture.
- Terracotta - Terracotta is lightly fired earthenware, red or reddish-brown in colour, used in ancient times. Fired at higher temperatures terracotta was used in the nineteenth century for decorative vases and similar objects, but rarely for utilitarian goods. Other uses for terracotta include roofing tiles, garden pots and ornaments. Glazed terracotta is known as faience.
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