Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain jug, painted in runny underglaze blue.
Soft-paste porcelain jug, moulded with decoration in relief, and painted in runny underglaze blue. The jug has a globular body, moulded at base and shoulders with a broad band of pointed leaves separated by alternate single and double sunflower heads. It stands on a waisted foot, and has a sparrow beak spout and scrolled strap handle. The cylindrical neck is moulded with a band of sunflowers on a seeded ground. The jug is painted with a continuous scene, showing a man out walking in a river landscape with pagodas on islands among willow trees, sampans and birds in flight. The rim has a border of scrolls and flowerheads.
Notes
History note: Bought from the Merton Thoms Collection; sold Christie's 11th February 1910, lot 188, £5 5s 0d.
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 26.6 cm
Length: 19.6 cm
Place(s) associated
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Lowestoft
⪼ Suffolk
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
School or Style
Rococo
Chinoiserie
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 5
- Location: Inside footring
- Method of creation: Underglaze in blue
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.3111-1928
Primary reference Number: 38284
Old object number: 3151, vol. 10
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 2 June 2020
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
