Jug
ca. 1800 (made)
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Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with a distant view of Worcester. The body is spirally gadrooned with a wide cylindrical neck, projecting lip and angular loop handle. The gadroons are decorated with formal designs of foliage in gold on bands alternately blue and white, interrupted by a medallion on the front enclosing the view which is painted in grey monochrome and has the title 'WORCESTER' beneath it. In a panel on either side of the neck are the initials 'A G H' enclosed by laurel stems in gold on a blue ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Chamberlain & Co., Worcester, ca. 1800. |
| Physical description | Jug of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with a distant view of Worcester. The body is spirally gadrooned with a wide cylindrical neck, projecting lip and angular loop handle. The gadroons are decorated with formal designs of foliage in gold on bands alternately blue and white, interrupted by a medallion on the front enclosing the view which is painted in grey monochrome and has the title 'WORCESTER' beneath it. In a panel on either side of the neck are the initials 'A G H' enclosed by laurel stems in gold on a blue ground. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | The landscape is copied from Plate xix in The Copper Plate MagazineVol. 1, published in 1792. |
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| Accession number | C.531-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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