Jug
Pottery:
Della Robbia Pottery
Decorator:
Peirce, Aphra Jane
Painter:
Buckler, Gwendoline
Red earthenware jug, slip coated and decorated with sgraffito and oxide colours.
Red earthenware coated with cream slip, with incised (sgraffito) decoration painted in shades of green, yellow, and brown under lead-glaze.; silver plated mount, cover, and handle. The sides are decorated with four winged putti seated on foliated scrolls reserved in a green background; below there is a border of foliage and spots.
Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023
Height: 18 cm
Width: 16 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2023) by Smythe, Ian and Rita
19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
1896
CE
-
1901
CE
The Della Robbia Pottery, founded by Harold Rathbone and Conrad Dressler. From 1894 until closure in 1906 it produced a range of decorative ceramics in Art Nouveau style and influenced by 15th and 16th century Italian ceramics. Following the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, pieces were hand thrown and decorated and individual decorators encouraged to mark their work. Typically, designs were set out in sgraffito over white slip and coloured with special fluid colours, formed from pigments mixed with water and gum arabic, which blended with the glaze to give exceptionally bright hues.
Body
composed of
slip
( creasm)
earthenware
( red)
Handle
composed of
silver-plate
( no hallmarks visible)
Mount
composed of
silver-plate
( no hallmarks visible)
Decoration
composed of
metallic oxides
Inscription present: cream-coloured rectangular stick-on label (probably white originally)
Accession number: C.34-2023
Primary reference Number: 226584
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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