Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Mug

ca. 1760 (made), ca. 1760 (decorated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.6cm
  • Diameter: 10.8cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Dalgleish, London, for £5 in March 1869
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 813 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:811-1885

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2009
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