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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Cream Jug

1756-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cream jug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed in brown, over-painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shaped and with a loop handle. Transfer-printed and painted with a landscape with a wall buttress and pyramid in brown, green, yellow and pink, and with a man supporting a shield of the Arms of Parminter consisting of an argent, a saltire cross gules, between four lozenges gules voided of the field, and above is a double eagle in black on a blue ground. The whole shield is surrounded by a gilded scroll border with a conventional lion head above. Within the rim is a scroll border in gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed in brown, over-painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Cream jug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed in brown, over-painted with enamels and gilded, Vauxhall porcelain factory, Vauxhall, 1756-1760.
Physical description
Cream jug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed in brown, over-painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shaped and with a loop handle. Transfer-printed and painted with a landscape with a wall buttress and pyramid in brown, green, yellow and pink, and with a man supporting a shield of the Arms of Parminter consisting of an argent, a saltire cross gules, between four lozenges gules voided of the field, and above is a double eagle in black on a blue ground. The whole shield is surrounded by a gilded scroll border with a conventional lion head above. Within the rim is a scroll border in gold.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.9cm
  • Diameter: 6.7cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Watney, B. The Vauxhall China Works, 1751-1764. English Ceramic Circle Transactions. 1989, vol. 13, part 3, 220 p.
  • For a cup from this service, see The English Ceramic Circle, Ceramics of Vauxhall (2007), cat. 45, where dated ca. 1756-60
Collection
Accession number
C.1258-1924

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Record createdJune 9, 2009
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