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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
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.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 9.0 cm
Width: 8.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( red, yellow, green, pink and purple)
cobalt-blue
gold
Body
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.67-1918
Primary reference Number: 32863
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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