Jug
ca. 1755 (made)
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Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief. With a pear-shaped body, contracted neck, expanding mouth with a projecting lip, scrolled loop handle, and three small scrolled feet springing from cabbage-leaves moulded in relief on the body. The body and neck are divided by grooves into six lobes, and on either side of the body is a landscape in a shaped panel bordered by relief scrollwork coloured purple. Below the lip is painted a rose, and on the neck are small insects, and round the rim is a border of leafy scrolls in purple.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief |
| Brief description | Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1755. |
| Physical description | Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief. With a pear-shaped body, contracted neck, expanding mouth with a projecting lip, scrolled loop handle, and three small scrolled feet springing from cabbage-leaves moulded in relief on the body. The body and neck are divided by grooves into six lobes, and on either side of the body is a landscape in a shaped panel bordered by relief scrollwork coloured purple. Below the lip is painted a rose, and on the neck are small insects, and round the rim is a border of leafy scrolls in purple. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mr Sanders, Hammesmith, for £10 10 shillings in March 1873 This moulded shape is extremely rare. For a commentary on European decoration on early Worcester see Simon Spero below: '.....purely European themes played little part in the early output and examples are scarce.' |
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| Bibliographic reference | Spero, Simon. Lund's Bristol and Early Bristol Porcelain 1750-1758, The A.J. Smith Collection. London, C. and J. Smith. See Chapter 11 'European Decoration'. |
| Other number | Sch. I 490 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:543-1885 |
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| Record created | January 16, 2009 |
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