English earthenware baluster jug

An image of Baluster jug. Unknown potter, England, Surrey, Farnham. Slender oviform body with slightly expanding neck. Loop handle and wide spreading base. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, and partially covered with brown-flecked green lead glaze. Height, whole, 32.3 cm, diameter, foot, 11.9 cm, circa 1275-1325. Medieval.

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Baluster jug. Unknown potter, England, Surrey, Farnham. Slender oviform body with slightly expanding neck. Loop handle and wide spreading base. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, and partially covered with brown-flecked green lead glaze. Height, whole, 32.3 cm, diameter, foot, 11.9 cm, circa 1275-1325. Medieval.

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Accession Number: GL.C.2-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
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Image width: 732 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 395.99kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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13th Century baluster jug earthenware English Fitz_AA glazed green handle handled jug Medieval pottery

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