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Production: Sewell, Joseph (Uncertain)
Yellow-glazed earthenware jug, bat-printed onglaze in red with, vignettes of a couple taking tea and a man fishing from a boat. Red enamel bands round rim, shoulder and foot.
Jug. Yellow-glazed earthenware, bat-printed and painted onglaze in red. Urn-shaped with a broad, curved lip, loop handle rising from the rim, and a sloping, circular foot. Decorated on one side with a couple taking tea in a garden, attended on the left by a boy servant, and watched by a dog seated on the right. On the other side is a view with a man fishing from a boat, with a church, a windmill and a tower in the background. Inside the lip there is a gabled building and a spire or obelisk. There are red bands round the foot, the shoulder, and the rim. On the back of the handle there is a spot, a stylised leaf or fern, a stroke, and a line.
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands.
Height: 14.0 cm
Width: 13.7 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: Given (1997) by Rylands, G.H.W.
Early 19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1815
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( red)
Banding
composed of
enamel
( red)
Slip-casting
: Yellow-glazed earthenware, bat-printed and painted overglaze in red.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.45-1997
Primary reference Number: 75156
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/75156 Accessed: 2023-06-04 16:10:30
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Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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