Factory:
West Pans Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor:
Littler, William
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.
History note: Unknown before testator; on loan since 1975
Bequeathed by Mrs Lorna B. Sutherland
Height: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2006) by Sutherland, Lorna B., Mrs
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1764
CE
-
1777
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( greyish-blue, green, yellow, iron-red, purple, brown, and black)
Handle-spout
Width 20.5 cm
Body
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Inscription present: in elaborate script capital letters
Accession number: C.43-2006
Primary reference Number: 136924
Entry form: None
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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