IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	38284
accession number:	C.3111-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 2 June 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain jug, painted in runny underglaze blue.
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from the Merton Thoms Collection; sold Christie's 11th February 1910, lot 188, £5 5s 0d.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38284

PEOPLE
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Thoms, Merton
man

SUBJECTS
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sampan
birds
trees
flower heads
walking
landscape
river
sampan
birds
trees
flower heads
walking
landscape
river



TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1765 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1765
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 26.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 19.6



CITATIONS
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The Illustrated Guide to Lowestoft Porcelain
Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum
Early Lowestoft
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