Jug
ca. 1769-1770 (made)
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Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Pear-shaped with a scroll handle. Painted in an irregular lobed panel with a scene inscribed below with 'The Game of Cricket', depicting players on the Denes in Lowestoft. Below the spout and at the back above and below the handle is a red trellis diaper.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Lowestoft porcelain factory, Lowestoft, ca. 1769-1770. |
| Physical description | Jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Pear-shaped with a scroll handle. Painted in an irregular lobed panel with a scene inscribed below with 'The Game of Cricket', depicting players on the Denes in Lowestoft. Below the spout and at the back above and below the handle is a red trellis diaper. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'The Game of Cricket' (Inscribed on the panel) |
| Credit line | Legh Tolson Bequest |
| Object history | The image is copied from a print of about 1765 by H. Roberts after L.P. Boitard. |
| Production | Date given by John Howell in 1981 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Clarkston R. J. & Mallet J. V. G. A Problematical Group of Eighteenth-Century Porcelains.Transactions of the English Ceramics Circle. 1971, vol. 8, part 1. pp. 80-121. |
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| Accession number | C.60-1932 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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