Rare Ornate,Large Antique Rockingham/Bennington Pottery with Music Box

Description

Antique Rockingham/Bennington Pottery with Music Box which works. Gorgeous mustard yellow and brown glaze intricately imprinted with a man and women riding a bicycle on a sunny day through the fields with a cow looking on. No chips or cracks /music plays . Pottery is intricate, coloring bright, and glaze is thick.
The factory was located in
Swinton
, near
Rotherham
,
West Riding of Yorkshire
,
England
, and for the later part of its lifetime existed under the patronage of the
Earls Fitzwilliam
, indirect descendants of the
Marquesses of Rockingham
,
[3]
What is often called "Rockingham-glazed" pottery or "Rockingham ware" was widely produced in Britain and the United States in the 19th century, earthenware with a thick brown
ceramic glaze
, in a style associated with the earlier 18th-century production.