Cream Jug

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and pear-shaped with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, projecting lip and loop handle, and with three mask-and-claw feet, and moulded in low relief with shells coloured pink and yellow on a green ground moulded with foliate patterns, and with a gilt edge.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, moulded and gilded
Brief description
Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and pear-shaped with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, projecting lip and loop handle, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Cream jug of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and pear-shaped with a wide spreading mouth and wavy edge, projecting lip and loop handle, and with three mask-and-claw feet, and moulded in low relief with shells coloured pink and yellow on a green ground moulded with foliate patterns, and with a gilt edge.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.6cm
  • Diameter: 5.7cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 198 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1009-1885

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Record createdFebruary 27, 2009
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