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Owl Jug
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Earthenware, thrown in two parts, decorated with slip-trailing in two shades of brown and white slip, and lead-glazed
History note: George Stoner, Stoner & Evans, King Street, St James's Square, London, from whom purchased on 24 November 1915 (with white salt-glazed stoneware owl C.497 & A-1928 for £280), by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1680
-
Circa
1700
Owl jugs were made in tin-glazed earthenware in some of the German states and in Switzerland in the late sixteenth century, and in salt-glazed stoneware in the Rhineland. No definite link between these Continental owls and the late 17th century English slipware owls has been discovered, but in view of the large quantities of German stoneware bottles imported into England in the 17th century, it is possible that a German stoneware owl jug could have been imported.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( clay and water)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Accession number: C.252 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73655
Old object number: 2736
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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