Cream Jug
1796 (made)
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Cream jug, cylindrical body with three scroll feet; decorated on a green ground with gilt rectangular panels enclosing figure subjects; on the back are two women in classical costume sacrificing; in each of the two side panels is a cupid. Round the mouth is a border of swans and scrolls.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Cream-jug, hard-paste porcelain, painted in colours and gold with Ceres in a chariot; Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, Austria, 1796 |
| Physical description | Cream jug, cylindrical body with three scroll feet; decorated on a green ground with gilt rectangular panels enclosing figure subjects; on the back are two women in classical costume sacrificing; in each of the two side panels is a cupid. Round the mouth is a border of swans and scrolls. |
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| Credit line | Given by Col. Waldo-Sibthorp |
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| Accession number | 339-1902 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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