Waterloo jug
Jug
ca. 1815 (made)
ca. 1815 (made)
| Place of origin |
Jug, earthenware with lead-glaze and decoration moulded in relief and coloured in green, orange, blue, brown and black. Decorated on both sides with the same scene showing a hussar wearing a cylindrical white hat with a plume, his horse leaping over a field gun, with the gun crew scattered in disarray. One gunner lies on his back with his feet in the air. There are brown bands at the top and bottom of the jug; below the top band there is a border of pendant stiff green leaves and round the foot a border of small uncoloured leaves.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Waterloo jug (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware, moulded and painted in underglaze colours, lead-glazed |
| Brief description | Jug, pratt ware, 'Waterloo', Probably Staffordshire, about 1815 |
| Physical description | Jug, earthenware with lead-glaze and decoration moulded in relief and coloured in green, orange, blue, brown and black. Decorated on both sides with the same scene showing a hussar wearing a cylindrical white hat with a plume, his horse leaping over a field gun, with the gun crew scattered in disarray. One gunner lies on his back with his feet in the air. There are brown bands at the top and bottom of the jug; below the top band there is a border of pendant stiff green leaves and round the foot a border of small uncoloured leaves. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by M. G. A. Graham |
| Object history | Bequeathed by M.G.A.Graham |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Lewis, John and Griselda, Pratt ware: English and Scottish relief decorated and underglaze coloured earthenware 1780-1840 (Antique Collectors' Club: 2006). p.165. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.73-1952 |
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| Record created | February 27, 2009 |
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