Jug
1769 (dated)
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Jug of cream-coloured earthenware painted with enamels. Piriform with a slightly spreading mouth and extruded lip for pouring. Handles of interlaced reeded ribbons terminating in applied moulded sprigs of a flower and leaves. Round the rim and the foot is cable-moulding. The handle terminals are picked out in mauvish-pink, yellow, green and blue. In the front of the jug, a panel outlined with scrolls in black and red, enclosing a wheat-sheaf in red and a plough in black and red inscribed 'God Speed the Plough'. Below this is the inscription 'Thos; Stonier'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware painted with enamels and moulded |
| Brief description | Jug of cream-coloured earthenware painted with enamels, probably Yorkshire, dated 1769. |
| Physical description | Jug of cream-coloured earthenware painted with enamels. Piriform with a slightly spreading mouth and extruded lip for pouring. Handles of interlaced reeded ribbons terminating in applied moulded sprigs of a flower and leaves. Round the rim and the foot is cable-moulding. The handle terminals are picked out in mauvish-pink, yellow, green and blue. In the front of the jug, a panel outlined with scrolls in black and red, enclosing a wheat-sheaf in red and a plough in black and red inscribed 'God Speed the Plough'. Below this is the inscription 'Thos; Stonier'. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'God Speed the Plough / 'Thos; Stonier' / 1769' (Inscribed on the front) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by A. Bethune Morgan |
| Object history | The painting on the handle terminals may be factory work, whereas the panel on the front is outside decoration. |
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| Accession number | C.14-1952 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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