Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
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.
History note: Bought from the Merton Thoms Collection; sold Christie's 11th February 1910, lot 188, £5 5s 0d.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 26.6 cm
Length: 19.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3111-1928
Primary reference Number: 38284
Old object number: 3151, vol. 10
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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