Jug: C.43-2006

Maker(s)

Factory: West Pans Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor: Littler, William

Entities

• Jug

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain jug, painted in enamels with a monogram, flowers, and foliage

Soft-paste porcelain jug, with a glassy quality, thrown, glazed, and painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, iron-red, purple, brown, and black enamels. The jug has an ovoid body, a high cylindrical neck, sparrow beak spout, and angular strap handle, and stands on a footring. The front is painted below the spout with the monogram RT or RJ, flanked by curved sprays of mixed flowers and foliage, each with earsof barley at the top. On each side there is a large bouquet of mixed flowers, with a leaf a little distance above it, and below a small spray of purple flowers. Below the handle there is a medium-sized bouquet of small flowers. The top and back of the handle is decorated with five red shells, and green weed or moss. Round the bottom end of the handle thee is a trompe l’oeil red ribbon tied in a bow, and over the top of the upper end, is a red ribbon which dangles down on each side. The rim is banded in dark reddish-brown.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator; on loan since 1975

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Mrs Lorna B. Sutherland

Place(s) associated

• West Pans ⪼ Musselburgh ⪼ Scotland

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2006) by Sutherland, Lorna B., Mrs

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa 1764 CE - 1777 CE

School or Style

Rococo