Unknown
(Glasshouse)
Pale green blown glass jug, with a bulbous body, a short cylindrical neck with two anulets, a flaring rim, and a slender curved spout. With an applied ribbon handle which widens into a thick oval pad at its base. There is a pontil mark in the centre of the concave base.
History note: Howard Phillips, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, from whom purchased in August 1990; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, St Andrew's Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest
Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 14 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Mid 17th century
18th century
19th century
1625
CE
-
1675
CE
The jug was accessioned as mid 17th century, but seems more like to have been made in the 18th or 19th century.
Body
pale green Glass
Accession number: C.223-2015
Primary reference Number: 206948
Old object number: 84
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.225-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Jug"
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