On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Jug

ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Schrezheim (made)

Pear-shaped body with bold spiral reeding, slender neck contracting upwards, slightly spreading foot, and loop handle of flattened section; pewter lid and ring at foot. Painted with bouquets and sprays of stylised flowers.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Faience
Earthenware
Object type
Jug
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Glazed
Brief description
Tankard of earthenware covered with a tin glaze, painted in colours and mounted in pewter. German, probably Schrezheim, about 1755.
Physical description
Pear-shaped body with bold spiral reeding, slender neck contracting upwards, slightly spreading foot, and loop handle of flattened section; pewter lid and ring at foot. Painted with bouquets and sprays of stylised flowers.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 11 1/8in
  • Taken from register diameter: 5 5/8in
Gallery label
Jug with pewter lid Made in Schrezheim, Germany about 1755 Tin-glazed earthenware C.148-1930(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Originally thought to be just German and dating to about 1720.
Bought from Alfred Spero, London.
Historical context
Note in Register: In the opinion of Dr. Eric Meyer of Berlins Schlossmuseum (1932) this jug was probably made at Schrezheim.
Note in Register: In the opinion of Mons. Paul Berndt of Agadii also, this piece is Schrezheim (Oct. 1951). Also in that of Dr. Marc H. von Freedeu of the Mainzfrankischen Museum, Würzburg (1954).
Subject depicted
Flowers
Bibliographic references
  • Riesieter, O., Die deutschen fayencen
  • Die Kunst zu Wohnen: Ein Augsburger Klebealbum des 18. Jahrhunderts, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2013. This privately owned album, recently exhibited and published (The Art of Living: An Augsburg Paste-Up Album from the 18th Century) reveals the interiors of an upper-middle-class burgher household in Augsburg of 1780-86 through means of detailed colour illustrations, part pen/ink and watercolour, part decoupage, part scrapbook. It may be the home of the goldsmith Johann Georg Walther, and the artist responsible for the album is possibly Balthasar Cornelius Koch. The page illustrating the kitchen shows the wall bays, one with pewter plates above a table with various dishes, On the top shelf, above the pewter-ware, is a row of spirally moulded salt-glazed stoneware jugs with twisted handles and simple blue sprig decoration, all displayed upside-down in graduated sizes, the largest in the centre. In a separate bay to the right, are moulds hung on the wall. Above these are tin-glazed earthenware jugs, plain white or with various types of decoration, hung by their handles on hooks in a row. They all have hinged pewter covers.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.148-1930

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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