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Jug: C.2085-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Ziegler Factory
Proprietor of factory: Ziegler, Jean Claude

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Description

Brown salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied sprays of vine leaves and bunches of grapes

Brown stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, applied moulded decoration, brown wash, and salt glaze. The jug is of an elongated pear shape standing on a low foot. Its flaring mouth is pinched at the front to form a lip, and it has a strap handle with disks on either side of its junction with the rim. The sides are decorated with a spray of vine leaves, tendrils, and bunches of grapes which meanders around the body and up the back of the handle. Near the base to the left of the handle is the impressed mark JZ within a quatrefoil.

Notes

History note: Mlle Meyer, 340 rue Saint Honoré, Paris, from whom purchased for 60 francs on 9 January 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 10.3 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Voisinlieu ⪼ Beauvais ⪼ France

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, Mid#
Circa 1840 CE - 1850

Note

A salt-glazed stoneware pottery was established at Voisinlieu, near Beauvais, by Jean Claude Ziegler (1804-56) in 1839. A two-handled vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum is decorated in a similar way with larger vine leaves. (inv. no. 4075-1901)

Components of the work

Surface composed of salt-glaze
Base Diameter 5.6 cm
Body
Decoration

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: JZ within a quatrefoil outline
  • Location: On side above base below bunch of grapes on left of handle
  • Method of creation: Impressed
  • Type: Factory mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2085-1928
Primary reference Number: 76600
Old object number: 2626
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 11 October 2022 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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