Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug painted in polychrome enamels with flowers and insects.
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, painted in blue, green, yellow, red, mauve and grey enamel colours. Pear shaped body with sparrow beak lip; loop handle with inward scroll at the top, thumbrest, and inward and outward scroll at the bottom. Decorated with a stork standing between flowering plants, and with three insects.
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1970. Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 7.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (1990) by H.M. Government
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1752
-
1754
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, red, mauve and grey)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Steatitic soft-paste porcelain, painted in blue, green, yellow, red, mauve and grey enamel colours
Accession number: C.57-1992
Primary reference Number: 37251
Old object number: Statham Loan 25-1970
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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