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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Cream Jug

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware, and with a pear-shaped body with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, a projecting lip and reeded loop handle, and three shell-and-claw feet, and moulded in low relief with shells and foliate patterns, and irregular touches of blue.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware and moulded
Brief description
Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware, and with a pear-shaped body with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, a projecting lip and reeded loop handle, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1750.
Physical description
Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware, and with a pear-shaped body with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, a projecting lip and reeded loop handle, and three shell-and-claw feet, and moulded in low relief with shells and foliate patterns, and irregular touches of blue.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.6cm
  • Diameter: 5.4cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 136 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1012-1885

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
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