Cream Jug
ca. 1745 (made)
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Cream-jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Pear-shaped with a splayed lip and prominent beak for pouring. Scrolled tubular handle. Panels on each side are framed in rococo scrolls and one contains an elderly man talking to a young woman in a landscape, and the other with a young man and his manservant in a landscape. Slight red scrolls on the beak and handle.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Cream-jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, 'A-marked' type, probably made in London, ca. 1745. |
| Physical description | Cream-jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Pear-shaped with a splayed lip and prominent beak for pouring. Scrolled tubular handle. Panels on each side are framed in rococo scrolls and one contains an elderly man talking to a young woman in a landscape, and the other with a young man and his manservant in a landscape. Slight red scrolls on the beak and handle. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'A' (painted in underglaze blue) |
| Object history | Felicity Marno of Stockspring Antiques has suggested an identification for the source of the scene as a drawing by Hubert Gravelot to illustrate 'Flora, or Hob in the Well, An Opera', c. 1737, in the collections of the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, accession number 44.54.5, (see references). |
| Production | 'A-marked' type |
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| Bibliographic reference | Drawing by Hubert Gravelot to illustrate 'Flora, or Hob in the Well, An Opera', c. 1737, in the collections of the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York, accession number 44.54.5:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230117115451/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335475?rpp=40&pg=1&ao=on&ft=Hubert+Gravelot&pos=38 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.51-1961 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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