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

Jug

ca. 1785-95 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Toy cream jug of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Pear-shaped body. Decorated with two ships and a lake scene.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Toy cream jug of soft-paste porcelain painted with in underglaze blue, Caughley Porcelain Factory, Caughley, ca. 1785-95
Physical description
Toy cream jug of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Pear-shaped body. Decorated with two ships and a lake scene.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.8cm
  • Diameter: 3.5cm
Credit line
Given by Alfred Darby, Esq.
Object history
Part of a toy tea service C.197 to EE-1921.

Historical significance: Towards the end of the 18th Century, English porcelain factories began making affordable sets of blue and white tableware, pionerred at Worcester and soon taken up at Caughley and elsewhere. Only toy services now survive complete.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
  • For this pattern see The Caughley Society, Caughley Blue & White Patterns (2012), cat. E33, where dated 1778-92
Collection
Accession number
C.197D-1921

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Record createdNovember 27, 2002
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