Staffordshire redware milk jug with applied white reliefs

An image of Cream jug/milk jug. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery, England. The bulbous body rises into a short cylindrical neck with a sparrow beak lip, and at right angles to it, a ring handle pinched together at the top. Below the lip is a sprig of bird perching on an upright branch with a large leaf on either side. Further to the left is a smaller bird perching on a branch with leaves, and to the left of that, a fleur-de-lys. A white slip band runs round the rim. Red earthenware, thrown, with applied spout and handle, decorated with mould-applied white sprigs (reliefs) and white slip under lead-glaze. Height, whole, 7 cm, width, whole, 8.4 cm, circa 1740-1750. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Cream jug/milk jug. Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery, England. The bulbous body rises into a short cylindrical neck with a sparrow beak lip, and at right angles to it, a ring handle pinched together at the top. Below the lip is a sprig of bird perching on an upright branch with a large leaf on either side. Further to the left is a smaller bird perching on a branch with leaves, and to the left of that, a fleur-de-lys. A white slip band runs round the rim. Red earthenware, thrown, with applied spout and handle, decorated with mould-applied white sprigs (reliefs) and white slip under lead-glaze. Height, whole, 7 cm, width, whole, 8.4 cm, circa 1740-1750. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Accession Number: C.6-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 969 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 102.10kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1

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18th Century _WF_Batchelor applied birds brown bulb bulbous cream jug Early Rococo earthenware English Fitz_AA Georgian glazed handle handled jug lead-glazed milk jug pottery Rococo spout spouted sprig sprigs Staffordshire Pottery thrown underglaze

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