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Milk jug
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Milk jug
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (made)
- Date:
ca. 1850 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Glass
- Museum number:
62-1852
- Gallery location:
British Galleries, room 122g, case 2
Object Type
A modest, entirely plain jug, used for milk. Made in the mid-19th century, at a time when cheap, press-moulded glass was beginning to become the most available type, a hand-made but undecorated artefact such as this was still extremely marketable.
Materials & Making
This jug is made in strong, brilliantly-clear lead glass. The bowl was blown and, while still on the blowing-pipe, the handle and spout were applied. The handle is part-formed as a gather of molten glass, which is allowed to lengthen by means of gravity and then attached at top and bottom to the body of the jug. The spout is a gather of molten glass applied to the rim and then pulled, with the rim and side of the bowl outwards to form a spout. This modest took probably required at least two people to make.
