Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Jug

ca. 1870 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of red earthenware decorated in white slip, painted in colours, and incised under a clear glaze. Globular with a wide mouth and loop handle. Decorated under the spout with a design of formal leaves and flowers in green- painted slip across which are lines of incision between line decoration touched with blue, yellow and manganese.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware decorated in white slip, painted in colours, and incised under a clear glaze
Brief description
Jug of red earthenware decorated with white slip and painted in colours. Swiss, Heimberg, about 1870.
Physical description
Jug of red earthenware decorated in white slip, painted in colours, and incised under a clear glaze. Globular with a wide mouth and loop handle. Decorated under the spout with a design of formal leaves and flowers in green- painted slip across which are lines of incision between line decoration touched with blue, yellow and manganese.
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.7cm
  • Diameter: 11.4cm
Credit line
Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Object history
H.M.C. Loan no.74
Subjects depicted
Other number
HMC.74 - H.M.C. Loan no.
Collection
Accession number
C.610-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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