Cream Jug
first half of 20th century (made)
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Painted in enamel colours
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, lead glaze, painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Cream jug, earthenware, lead glazed and painted in enamels, decorated by Jessie M King |
| Physical description | Painted in enamel colours |
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| Marks and inscriptions | a rabbit in brown, a gate, and the initials JMK (Decoration)
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| Gallery label | Cream jug
Decorated by Jessie M. King, Glasgow, about 1900-50
Glazed earthenware painted in enamel colours
C.186-1977(23/05/2008) |
| Historical context | Bought in the year that Jessie M King's daughter Merle sold the contents of her studio at auction in Glasgow, 1977. |
| Production | King tended to decorate factory blanks and signed them with a distinctive rabbit, green gate to indicate her studio in Kirkcudbright, and her initials |
| Bibliographic reference | ed. Burkhauser, Jude: Glasgow Girls, women in art and design 1880 - 1920 (Edinburgh, 1993) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.186-1977 |
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| Record created | November 22, 1999 |
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