Jug
ca. 1840 (made)
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Milk jug of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. With a four-lobed bulbous body, high rim rising in front, and scrolled loop handle. Decorated with bouquets of flowers on a pale fawn-coloured ground in panels reserved on either side of the body.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Milk jug of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, possibly by Jacob Petit's porcelain factory, made in Paris, about 1840. |
| Physical description | Milk jug of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. With a four-lobed bulbous body, high rim rising in front, and scrolled loop handle. Decorated with bouquets of flowers on a pale fawn-coloured ground in panels reserved on either side of the body. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Given by Mrs Herbert Allen (Mrs Maude Louise Allen). |
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| Accession number | C.773-1935 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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