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

Cream Jug

1796 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cream jug, cylindrical body with three scroll feet; decorated on a green ground with gilt rectangular panels enclosing figure subjects; on the back are two women in classical costume sacrificing; in each of the two side panels is a cupid. Round the mouth is a border of swans and scrolls.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Cream-jug, hard-paste porcelain, painted in colours and gold with Ceres in a chariot; Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, Austria, 1796
Physical description
Cream jug, cylindrical body with three scroll feet; decorated on a green ground with gilt rectangular panels enclosing figure subjects; on the back are two women in classical costume sacrificing; in each of the two side panels is a cupid. Round the mouth is a border of swans and scrolls.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.8cm
  • Diameter: 6.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A shield with the arms of Austria, in blue
  • '17' in purple
  • '12' and '96' impressed
Credit line
Given by Col. Waldo-Sibthorp
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
339-1902

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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