Cream Jug

1730-1735 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pouring tea bowl of hard-paste porcelain. Lip spout and loop handle, high foot ring. Deep yellow ground. Two lobed reserves with Höroldt chinoiseries. Inside a roundel of symmetrical Indian flowers in purple framed by double red circles. Inside edge gold lace ornament.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Pouring tea bowl of hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, 1730-1735
Physical description
Pouring tea bowl of hard-paste porcelain. Lip spout and loop handle, high foot ring. Deep yellow ground. Two lobed reserves with Höroldt chinoiseries. Inside a roundel of symmetrical Indian flowers in purple framed by double red circles. Inside edge gold lace ornament.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.7cm
  • Diameter: 7.9cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords with pommels and curved guards within a double ring (Factory mark, carefully drawn in underglaze blue)
  • (Impressed mark of the thrower Johann Elias Grund Senior (active 1720-39))
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1621-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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