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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Jug

ca. 1680 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Part of the body and foot of a jug in salt-glazed stoneware, and decorated with three applied circular reliefs of different formal flowers in brownish-purple and blue, each surrounded by a broad band of mottled blue, and the moulded foot is encircled by a blue line, and part of the glaze is grey mottled with brown.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware, moulded and painted with underglaze cobalt and manganese pigments
Brief description
Part of the body and foot of a jug in salt-glazed stoneware, possibly made by John Dwight's Fulham Pottery, Fulham, or in Westerwald, ca. 1680.
Physical description
Part of the body and foot of a jug in salt-glazed stoneware, and decorated with three applied circular reliefs of different formal flowers in brownish-purple and blue, each surrounded by a broad band of mottled blue, and the moulded foot is encircled by a blue line, and part of the glaze is grey mottled with brown.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 11.7cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Excavated on the site of John Dwight's Fulham Pottery
Subject depicted
Other number
Sch. II 59 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:852-1885

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Record createdFebruary 17, 2009
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