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Worcester Porcelain Factory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain milk or cream jug, painted underglaze in blue.
Soft-paste porcelain milk or cream jug, painted underglaze in blue. Ovoid body with twelve facets, shaped rim and upward-tilting lip; scroll handle springing from a moulded flower head. Decorated on the outside with the 'Prunus Root' pattern and inside the rim with two floral sprays and a butterfly.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Height: 8.2 cm
Width: 8.0 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
(1933)
by
Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
Mid-18th Century
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1758
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue
presumed lead Lead-glaze steatitic Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.83-1933
Primary reference Number: 34109
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Milk jug"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34109 Accessed: 2022-06-25 20:38:08
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