IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 34264 accession number: C.100 & A-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain milk jug and cover, decorated with underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt. Pear-shaped with fluted sides and sparrow-beak spout, lobed ear-shaped handle and slightly inverted footring. The domed and fluted cover has a knob in the form of an open flower with leaf terminals. Painted on one side with two exotic birds on an island in a park, and on the other with a single bird surrounded by flocks of distant birds, two larger birds and three insects in flight. Above, there is an underglaze blue band edged with gilt C-scrolls and on the rim, gold dentilations. On the back the handle there is a feather and dots in gold. the cover is decorated with a similar border surrounding three birds in flight; the flower knob is picked out in gilding. object type: Soft-paste porcelain milk jug and cover, decorated with birds in underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt. title: milk jug LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34264 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds insects flower leaf flying park birds insects flower leaf flying park TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain decorated with underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.8 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_100_20_26_20A_1933_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_100_20_26_20A_1933_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_100_20_26_20A_1933_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_100_20_26_20A_1933_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_100_20_26_20A_1933_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_100_20_26_20A_1933_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_100_20_26_20A_1933_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_100_20_26_20A_1933_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels