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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Jug

ca. 1500-1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
England (made)
Hampshire (made)

London was supplied with cheap household crockery from potteries which sprung up wherever suitable clay was to be found. Soft red clay pots decorated with white slip came from Harlow, while hard white mugs, pipkins and chafing dishes, usually with a lead glaze stained green with copper, were made by potteries on the Surrey-Hampshire borders.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Jug
Materials and techniques
Coloured lead-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Lead Glaze
Glazed
Brief description
Buff earthenware jug partly covered with a green glaze. English, Surrey/Hampshire borders, ca. 1500-1550
Physical description
Juf of lead-glazed earthenware. Off-white, fine body. Prominent girth grooves. Mottled green glaze on upper half. Elongated pear shape with small mouth and lip spout. Slightly grooved strap handle. Base slightly splayed and concave.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 8in
  • Taken from register diameter: 3 1/2in
Gallery label
  • Jug Made in the Surrey/Hampshire borders, England, about 1500-50 Lead-glazed earthenware C.229-1939 Given by Mrs E. Langdon(23/05/2008)
  • Jug, Surrey/Hampshire borders, 1500-50(2010 (TAB))
Credit line
Given by Mrs. E. Langdon
Object history
Given by Mrs. E. Langdon, Maida Vale, London.
Found in Grey's Inn Road (Mrs. Hunnard) in July 1916.
Historical context
Mr. G. F. Lawrence (date?) suggested it was made in Farnham.
Production
Made in the Surrey/Hampshire borders
Summary
London was supplied with cheap household crockery from potteries which sprung up wherever suitable clay was to be found. Soft red clay pots decorated with white slip came from Harlow, while hard white mugs, pipkins and chafing dishes, usually with a lead glaze stained green with copper, were made by potteries on the Surrey-Hampshire borders.
Bibliographic references
  • Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
  • Rackham, Bernard, Medieval English Pottery, 2nd ed., London: Faber & Faber, 1972
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.229-1939

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Record createdNovember 15, 2002
Record URL
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