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Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain jug, decorated with flower sprays and herring-bone borders in green, pink and purple enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain jug, painted in green, pink and purple enamels. The pear-shaped jug has a sparrow-beak spout and ribbed loop handle, and is supported on a wedge-shaped footring. It is painted with two crossed roses below the spout, flanked by small leaf sprigs, between bands of interwoven meandering festoons of pink roses and purple herring-bone, a pink herring-bone line on the handle.
History note: Purchased from Mrs Morrison, an antique dealer in Cheapside, Knaresborough, August 11th 1922, 30 shillings.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 13.0 cm
Width: 11.0 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 (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 18th century
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( green, pink and purple)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, painted in green, pink and purple enamels
Accession number: C.3127-1928
Primary reference Number: 38352
Old object number: 3855, vol. 19
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) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38352 Accessed: 2023-06-09 08:56:44
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Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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