Biddenden Maids

Slipware Pottery Money Box

• Small hairline crack on right arm after drying (see last photo).
Glazed and fired in, so no structural weakness, just cosmetic.
Fault is reflected in reduced price.

Unique one of a kind pottery.
Hand built, white slip over terracotta with sgraffito decoration and a rich honey glaze
20.5cm x 17cm

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The Biddenden maids, Elisa and Mary Chulkhurst (1100-1134), were conjoined twins named after their home town of Biddenden, in Kent, England. They lived for 34 years joined at their hips and shoulders until they died, six hours apart. The twins are said to have left land to the Church, the rental income from which was to be used to purchase food for the poor to be distributed on Easter Sunday.