English salt-glazed stoneware bear jug

An image of Bear Jug. Unidentified Nottingham pottery. Made in the form of a bear sitting up on its haunches and hugging a small dog with its forepaws. The detachable head forms a cup. The surface, except for the face and paws, and the figure of the dog, is coated with rough shreds of clay to indicate fur. The bear wears a muzzle, and this, together with the eyes, teeth, and chain of five links passing through the nose, is rendered by applied strips of white clay. Brown stoneware decorated with applied shredded clay, and white clay, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 34.1 cm, circa 1750-1780.

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Bear Jug. Unidentified Nottingham pottery. Made in the form of a bear sitting up on its haunches and hugging a small dog with its forepaws. The detachable head forms a cup. The surface, except for the face and paws, and the figure of the dog, is coated with rough shreds of clay to indicate fur. The bear wears a muzzle, and this, together with the eyes, teeth, and chain of five links passing through the nose, is rendered by applied strips of white clay. Brown stoneware decorated with applied shredded clay, and white clay, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 34.1 cm, circa 1750-1780.

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Accession Number: C.1257 & A-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 802 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 664.36kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2013:12:20 10:40:58

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