Production: Unidentified
Souvenir jug, hard-paste porcelain, with a lustrous pink ground, and a reserve printed in black and painted in enamels with a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, slip-cast, decorated overglaze with a lustrous pink ground, printing in black, painting in enamels, and gilding. The jug is moulded in rococo style. It stands on a low foot, and curves outwards at the front below the spout, and inwards on the opposite side, where there is a scrolled handle with a small hole on the underside of the top. The sides have kidney-shaped panels and there is fluting under the spout and down the front. the body has a lustrous pink ground, with on one side, a rectangular reserve printed in black with a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum (looking towards it from opposite Peterhouse), painted in blue, green, and pale brown enamels, inscribed below 'FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE' and further to the right 'L & McCC 3'.
History note: Purchased by the donor's father, Maurice Wilmore, while he was an undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge, c. 1919.
Given by Mrs Judith B.S. Rich
Method of acquisition: Given (2004-11-22) by Rich, Judith B. S., Mrs
20th Century, Early
Circa
1900
CE
-
Circa
1914
CE
Made in Germany, possibly in Thuringia, for the Cambridge tourist trade.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, and pale brown)
gilding
( probably mercury gilding)
Exterior
composed of
lustre
( pink)
Handle
Height 12.3 cm
Handle-spout
Width 12.5 cm
Body
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Hard-paste porcelain : Hard-paste porcelain slip-cast, decorated overglaze with a pink lustre ground, printing in black, painting in enamels, and gilding.
Inscription present: indistinct number
Inscription present: two concentric circles with MADE GERMANY printed between them, and IN printed in the centre
Accession number: C.10-2004
Primary reference Number: 112882
Entry form number: 613
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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