Mug
ca. 1760 (made), ca. 1760 (decorated)
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Mug of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, white slip and gilded, and the edge is mounted with a metal rim, and with an inverted bell-shaped body, high foot, and loop handle finished at the lower end in the form of a small ju-isceptre-head, and decorated with bamboos and prunus branches growing on rocks, in slight relief in white slip, between borders in blue of cell-pattern round the rim and wavy ornament round the lower part of the body, and over the slip decoration has been painted a group of five exotic birds amongst bushes, and the foot and handle are gilt.
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Materials and techniques | Porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, white slip, mounted and gilded |
Brief description | Mug of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, white slip and gilded, and the edge is mounted with a metal rim, and with an inverted bell-shaped body, high foot, and loop handle, maker unknown, made in Jingdezhen ca.1760, and decorated in England, ca. 1760. |
Physical description | Mug of porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, white slip and gilded, and the edge is mounted with a metal rim, and with an inverted bell-shaped body, high foot, and loop handle finished at the lower end in the form of a small ju-isceptre-head, and decorated with bamboos and prunus branches growing on rocks, in slight relief in white slip, between borders in blue of cell-pattern round the rim and wavy ornament round the lower part of the body, and over the slip decoration has been painted a group of five exotic birds amongst bushes, and the foot and handle are gilt. |
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Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Dalgleish, London, for £5 in March 1869 |
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Other number | Sch. I 813 - Schreiber number |
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Accession number | 414:811-1885 |
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Record created | February 16, 2009 |
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