Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, painted with birds and plants in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black.
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, painted in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black. The pear-shaped jug has a sparrow beak spout, and rococo scroll handle, on a low footring. It is painted in famille-verte style with two herons among rocks and flowering plants, an insect and birds in flight above.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 7.8 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
Circa
1752
-
1754
This style of bird painting is also found on sauceboats and dry mustard pots.
Decoration composed of enamels ( yellow, green, blue, and purple)
Steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, painted in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black
Accession number: C.111-1933
Primary reference Number: 34350
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 (2023) "Cream jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34350 Accessed: 2023-01-31 17:57:51
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|title=Cream jug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-31 17:57:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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