Potter: uncertain
Buff stoneware, thrown, pierced, and glazed dark brown.
Buff stoneware, thrown, with an applied strap handle connected to the interior by a hole in the wall of the jug at the lower end, and at the top to a tube round the rim with three sucking spouts. the neck is pierced by five gothic window shapes. The dark brown glaze which stops short of the lower edge; and the base is unglazed.
History note: Uncertain by donor who purchased it about 1976 for £2.50
Bequeathed by Prof. Karen Spärck Jones
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2007) by Spärck Jones, Karen, Professor
20th Century, Late#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1976
: Probably made shortly before its purchased in 1976
The testator's card for this jug was inscribed '? By Jill Denlon' or Denton, the second name not clear
Surface
composed of
glaze
Handle-spout
Width 16.4 cm
Body
Neck
Accession number: C.26-2007
Primary reference Number: 146201
Entry form number: 953
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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