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Jug

ca. 1810 - 1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug, of bone china painted in enamels and gilded. Globular or 'Dutch' shape with a deep rim and beak spout. The handle with an upper thumb rest. Decorated on both sides with a coat of arms reserved on a gilded eagle with outstretched wings, the motto 'NEC ME MEMINISSE PIGERIT' on a blue ribbon held by the eagle's claws below. The neckrim and spout picked out with gilded lines.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Jug, painted bone china, Staffordshire, ca. 1810 - 1820
Physical description
Jug, of bone china painted in enamels and gilded. Globular or 'Dutch' shape with a deep rim and beak spout. The handle with an upper thumb rest. Decorated on both sides with a coat of arms reserved on a gilded eagle with outstretched wings, the motto 'NEC ME MEMINISSE PIGERIT' on a blue ribbon held by the eagle's claws below. The neckrim and spout picked out with gilded lines.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.5cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
'NEC ME MEMINISSE PIGERIT' (Family (or club?) motto inscribed on a ribbon suspended below the coat of arms)
Translation
A quotation from Dryden's translation of the Aeneid (book 4, line 335), translated by Dryden as 'Nor can my mind forget'
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Robert Gerald Exley
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.106-2012

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Record createdJanuary 31, 2013
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