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

Jug

ca.1756-60 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Milk or cream jug of tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shaped with deeply cut grooves on the neck and foot. Scrolled handle. Applied sprays of plum blossom on the front. At the top is a border of diaper pattern originally in gilt. Traces of gilt foliations under the lip.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Milk or cream of tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, William Reid & Co., Liverpool, ca.1756-60
Physical description
Milk or cream jug of tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shaped with deeply cut grooves on the neck and foot. Scrolled handle. Applied sprays of plum blossom on the front. At the top is a border of diaper pattern originally in gilt. Traces of gilt foliations under the lip.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
  • Diameter: 7.3cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Hillis, Maurice. Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804. 2011, pl. 3.93, where dated ca. 1756-60
Collection
Accession number
C.298-1930

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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