Production: Unidentified Annaberg pottery (Probably)
Brown to grey stoneware, with carved decoration, with dark brown wash overall, and salt-glaze; pewter mounts and cover. The pear-shaped jug stands on a slightly spreading foot. It has a projecting groove around the top holding a pewter band, and a strap handle. Apart from the foot, the exterior surface is covered with scale pattern. Attached to the top of the handle there is a hinged pewter mount attached to a cone-or pineapple-shaped thumb piece and the shallow domed cover. which is engraved 'G.S.W./JAM (in monogram) CHRISTIAN/167o'. Below it are three pewterer's marks.
History note: Probably a French collection; H.J. Fielding collection (d. 1921); Puttick & Simpson's, 27 January 1922, Pottery and porcelain, the property of the late Henry Johnes Fielding Esq. (Grandson of Henry Fielding) of 17 Hereford Square S.W., one of five items in lot 72; bought by Mack the auction porter on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher bequest
Height: 20.3 cm
17.6
Width: 13.6 cm
At the moment, this record does not display units or type of measurements. We will rectify this as soon as possible.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, third quarter#
Production date:
circa
AD 1670
: The jug could date from c. 1650-75, but the date on the cover indicates 1670 or shortly before that
This jug was attributed to Creussen in Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935, but the scale pattern on the body is more typical of Annaberg, see Documentation, Klinge, 1979.
Body
composed of
stoneware
( brownish-grey)
Surface
composed of
wash
( dark brown)
salt-glaze
Mouns And Cover
composed of
pewter
Foot
Diameter 8 cm
Cover
Decoration
Inscription present: shield-shaped mark with ? a plant with three ball-shaped flowers
Inscription present: shield-shaped mark with a rampant lion
Inscription present: extract cut from a probably French sale catalogue
Accession number: C.2075-1928
Primary reference Number: 138463
Old object number: 3983
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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