Jug
1900 (made)
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Jug of buff-coloured earthenware, covered with a white slip, with sgraffito decoration under a yellow glaze. Elongated ovoid body, loop handle and mouth pinched in to form a lip. On the front is a male bust in ecclesiastical costume surrounded by a laurel wreath, with scrolls of acanthus foliage on either side. Round the neck is a border with a grotesque mask from the mouth of which spring two scrolled floral stems. The handle is decorated with a foliated band.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware covered with a white slip, with <i>sgraffito</i> decoration under a yellow glaze |
| Brief description | Jug, earthenware covered with a white slip, with sgraffito decoration under a yellow glaze, made by Carlo and Giano Loretz & Co., Italy (Milan), 1900 |
| Physical description | Jug of buff-coloured earthenware, covered with a white slip, with sgraffito decoration under a yellow glaze. Elongated ovoid body, loop handle and mouth pinched in to form a lip. On the front is a male bust in ecclesiastical costume surrounded by a laurel wreath, with scrolls of acanthus foliage on either side. Round the neck is a border with a grotesque mask from the mouth of which spring two scrolled floral stems. The handle is decorated with a foliated band. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Loretz Milano, 1900' (Incised on the base) |
| Object history | Made by Carlo and Giano Loretz & Co. of Milan, as a copy of an ewer now in the Salmoiraghi Collection at Pavia, made by Antonio Maria Cuzio of Pavia at the end of the 17th century. |
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| Accession number | 1311-1900 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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