it's a fantastic slipware bowl.t slipware it's pottery which is then coated with a very very thin layer of another colored slip, which is basically liquid clay, which is then carved into. this sgraffito effect. the history of slipware goes right back into medieval times. this would be a 19th-century piece. it become popular throughout the u.k. north devon is very, very famous for slipware. but we're up in dundee. yeah. where did you get this from? this i found in my mother's attic when i moved my mother and father to a smaller home this year. and margaret morren was my great-great aunt fantastic. so this has gone down from person to person to person. yeah. and lived in the attic. it was in the attic. i think i shall be displaying it now. would margaret morren have made it have designed it? it's very unlikely. it's more likely it was made perhaps as a present for her birth. oh, for her birth. your family records may be able to tell you something about that. i need to look into it. you need a genealogist. i do, i do.

ii came back and the restoration-- everything is peacockish and wonderfully exciting and you get slipware thing. i mean, this is-- seen this before. well, this is a copy a copy of the original aussie of the hour at the moment-- but you have your drink out of this, and it's all full of fun, i mean, it's absolutely gorgeous. ornamentation, of course. ornamentation. design and beauty. but life was like that. it grew exciting, you know? do you wonder what you'd have been doing back then, in those days? well, i would've been a cavalier. i-- i-- i hope-- no, because i helped charles ii escape after the battle of worcester. oh, you did, did you? yes, i did, yeah. right, okay. i remember that. and-- and so i would've become a cavalier. and, uh, this little piece is just a fragment of a pot that i found in a well in worcester. now, that's me dressed up in a cavalier's costume. fantastic. that's what i would've looked like. so, you would've liked the clothes, then, would you? oh, i would've loved to do it with a waistcoat and a wig, and a plumed hat, and, uh-- and you would carry your cane as you w