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Production:
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Description
Souvenir jug, hard-paste porcelain, with a lustrous pink ground, and a reserve printed in black and painted in enamels with a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, slip-cast, decorated overglaze with a lustrous pink ground, printing in black, painting in enamels, and gilding. The jug is moulded in rococo style. It stands on a low foot, and curves outwards at the front below the spout, and inwards on the opposite side, where there is a scrolled handle with a small hole on the underside of the top. The sides have kidney-shaped panels and there is fluting under the spout and down the front. the body has a lustrous pink ground, with on one side, a rectangular reserve printed in black with a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum (looking towards it from opposite Peterhouse), painted in blue, green, and pale brown enamels, inscribed below 'FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE' and further to the right 'L & McCC 3'.
Notes
History note: Purchased by the donor's father, Maurice Wilmore, while he was an undergraduate at Jesus College, Cambridge, c. 1919.
Legal notes
Given by Mrs Judith B.S. Rich
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2004-11-22)
by
Rich, Judith B. S., Mrs
Dating
20th Century, Early
Circa
1900
CE
-
Circa
1914
CE
Note
Made in Germany, possibly in Thuringia, for the Cambridge tourist trade.
School or Style
Rococo Revival
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, and pale brown)
gilding
( probably mercury gilding)
Exterior
composed of
lustre
( pink)
Handle
Height 12.3 cm
Handle-spout
Width 12.5 cm
Body
Materials used in production
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Hard-paste porcelain
: Hard-paste porcelain slip-cast, decorated overglaze with a pink lustre ground, printing in black, painting in enamels, and gilding.
Inscription or legends present
- Text: THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE
- Location: Below print
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Inscription
- Text: L & McCC 3.
- Location: Below the print at the right
- Method of creation: Printed in black
- Type: Inscription
- Text: 11
- Location: On the base
- Method of creation: Incised before glazing
- Type: Mark
Inscription present: indistinct number
- Location: On the base
- Method of creation: Painted in gold
- Type: Mark
Inscription present: two concentric circles with MADE GERMANY printed between them, and IN printed in the centre
- Text: MADE IN GERMANY
- Location: On the base
- Method of creation: Printed or stamped on in pinkish-red
- Type: Mark
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.10-2004
Primary reference Number: 112882
Entry form number: 613
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 30 September 2019
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
