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1874 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of buff-coloured stoneware with incised decoration painted with blue, grey and brown enamels, and applied beads of white slip. Elongated ovoid body with a cylindrical neck and a small projecting loop handle. The body is decorated with blue twisted leafy scrollwork, with white beads along the middle, springing from a brown vertical leaf at the front, and on a grey ground. On the shoulder is a horizontal band of scrolled foliage in blue, and round the neck is a row of leaves in blue on a brown ground.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with incised decoration painted with enamels, and applied beads of white slip
Brief description
Jug of stoneware with incised decoration painted with enamels, and applied beads of white slip, decorated by Arthur B. Barlow, Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, dated 1874.
Physical description
Jug of buff-coloured stoneware with incised decoration painted with blue, grey and brown enamels, and applied beads of white slip. Elongated ovoid body with a cylindrical neck and a small projecting loop handle. The body is decorated with blue twisted leafy scrollwork, with white beads along the middle, springing from a brown vertical leaf at the front, and on a grey ground. On the shoulder is a horizontal band of scrolled foliage in blue, and round the neck is a row of leaves in blue on a brown ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.7cm
  • Width: 12.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'DOULTON / 1874 / LAMBETH' (Maker's mark impressed on base, within an oval medallion)
  • 'A B B' (Decorator's mark incised on base, in monogram)
  • 'g' (Decorator's mark impressed on base)
  • 'B' (Decorator's mark impressed on base)
  • '983' (Incised)
Gallery label
Jug Arthur B. Barlow, made by Doulton & Co., Lambeth Art Pottery, London, England, dated 1874 3795-1901(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Production
Made at Lambeth Art Pottery.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
3795-1901

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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