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

Jug

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of porcelain painted with enamels. Bulbous body with a cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and foliated loop handle. Painted with a sporting subject in a panel in the front. The remainder of the body and neck are decorated with two wide bands of formal classical ornament in gold on a lavender-blue ground. The foot is painted to imitate black marble.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels
Brief description
Jug of porcelain painted with enamels, probably painted by Humphrey Chamberlain junior, Chamberlain & Co., Worcester, ca. 1810.
Physical description
Jug of porcelain painted with enamels. Bulbous body with a cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and foliated loop handle. Painted with a sporting subject in a panel in the front. The remainder of the body and neck are decorated with two wide bands of formal classical ornament in gold on a lavender-blue ground. The foot is painted to imitate black marble.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Setter and Black Grouse vide Daniels Rural Sports' (Written in red under the base)
  • 'Chamberlains Worcester' (Written in red)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
The sporting subject is copied from a plate engraved by J. Scott after a painting by L. Reinagle, in Rural Sports by W.B. Daniell, published in 1801-2. The original engraving appears facing p.76 in Vol. iii.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.534-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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