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Jug

1860 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug of earthenware, covered with a manganese-purple glaze, with decoration cut through the glaze. Cylindrical with bevelled shoulder, small projecting lip, loop handle, and a band of horizontal reeding round the upper and lower portions. Decorated with a diaper pattern of quatrefoils and dots.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with cut-glaze decoration
Brief description
Jug, earthenware with cut-glaze decoration, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd., Etruria, Staffordshire, 1860
Physical description
Jug of earthenware, covered with a manganese-purple glaze, with decoration cut through the glaze. Cylindrical with bevelled shoulder, small projecting lip, loop handle, and a band of horizontal reeding round the upper and lower portions. Decorated with a diaper pattern of quatrefoils and dots.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.3cm
  • Diameter: 10.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'WEDGWOOD' and 'VSO'

Note
Impressed
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Jervis, Simon, Victorian and Edwardian decorative art: the Handley-Read collection, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1972
Collection
Accession number
2813-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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