Puzzle Jug
ca. 1765-1770 (made)
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Puzzle jug, tin-glazed earthenware, buff body colour, bluish white glaze; outer part of base wiped entirely clean of glaze. Body inscribed: 'Sr/ If this beth' first you've seen Ill lay/ The wager which you'll please to say/ That you drink not this liquor all/ Before that some from th'jug doth fall'. The outer side of the handle has Oriental classic scroll motifs and is flanked on the body by flowering plants. All the decoration is in blue.
The jug is slightly concave on underside, with a round hollow handle with a hole in underside near the top connects with the interior of the jug. Three nozzles project from a hollow tube around the mouth. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
The jug is slightly concave on underside, with a round hollow handle with a hole in underside near the top connects with the interior of the jug. Three nozzles project from a hollow tube around the mouth. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Puzzle jug, tin-glazed earthenware, Liverpool, ca. 1765-1770. |
| Physical description | Puzzle jug, tin-glazed earthenware, buff body colour, bluish white glaze; outer part of base wiped entirely clean of glaze. Body inscribed: 'Sr/ If this beth' first you've seen Ill lay/ The wager which you'll please to say/ That you drink not this liquor all/ Before that some from th'jug doth fall'. The outer side of the handle has Oriental classic scroll motifs and is flanked on the body by flowering plants. All the decoration is in blue. The jug is slightly concave on underside, with a round hollow handle with a hole in underside near the top connects with the interior of the jug. Three nozzles project from a hollow tube around the mouth. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Sr/ If this beth' first you've seen Ill lay/ The wager which you'll please to say/ That you drink not this liquor all/ Before that some from th'jug doth fall'. (Decoration; incorporated into the decoration on the body of the jug.; painted) |
| Object history | Purchased from F.W. Withers, Holt, Norfolk (per J.A. Hardcastle, M.P.), 1880. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8 |
| Other number | D7. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 319-1880 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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