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

Jug

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with a distant view of Worcester. The body is spirally gadrooned with a wide cylindrical neck, projecting lip and angular loop handle. The gadroons are decorated with formal designs of foliage in gold on bands alternately blue and white, interrupted by a medallion on the front enclosing the view which is painted in grey monochrome and has the title 'WORCESTER' beneath it. In a panel on either side of the neck are the initials 'A G H' enclosed by laurel stems in gold on a blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Chamberlain & Co., Worcester, ca. 1800.
Physical description
Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with a distant view of Worcester. The body is spirally gadrooned with a wide cylindrical neck, projecting lip and angular loop handle. The gadroons are decorated with formal designs of foliage in gold on bands alternately blue and white, interrupted by a medallion on the front enclosing the view which is painted in grey monochrome and has the title 'WORCESTER' beneath it. In a panel on either side of the neck are the initials 'A G H' enclosed by laurel stems in gold on a blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'WORCESTER' (Underneath the landscape)
  • 'A G H' (In a panel on either side of the neck)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
The landscape is copied from Plate xix in The Copper Plate MagazineVol. 1, published in 1792.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.531-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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