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Cream jug: C.67-1918

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Current Location: In storage

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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, decorated in blue underglaze, onglaze with flower sprays in polychrome enamels, and gilt.

Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, decorated in blue underglaze, in red, yellow, green, pink and purple onglaze enamels, and gilt. Pear-shaped with a sparrow beak spout and wedge-shaped footring; replacement loop handle. The sides are decorated with three sprays of coloured flowers among smaller scattered sprigs. The rim is banded in smudged underglaze-blue, and there is a simple loop border above the footring. The interior rim has a border of cell diaper in smudged underglaze-blue below a plain gilt band.

Legal notes

Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

Measurements and weight

Height: 9 cm
Width: 8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA

Dating

18th Century
George III
Circa 1765 - 1770

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, pink and purple) cobalt-blue gold
Body

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
steatitic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.67-1918
Primary reference Number: 32863

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 17 November 2025

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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