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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug and cover, decorated with birds in underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug and cover, decorated with underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt. Pear-shaped with fluted sides and sparrow-beak spout, lobed ear-shaped handle and slightly inverted footring. The domed and fluted cover has a knob in the form of an open flower with leaf terminals. Painted on one side with two exotic birds on an island in a park, and on the other with a single bird surrounded by flocks of distant birds, two larger birds and three insects in flight. Above, there is an underglaze blue band edged with gilt C-scrolls and on the rim, gold dentilations. On the back the handle there is a feather and dots in gold. the cover is decorated with a similar border surrounding three birds in flight; the flower knob is picked out in gilding.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Height: 13.7 cm
Width: 9.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain decorated with underglaze blue, green, yellow, iron-red, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.100 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 34264
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Milk jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/34264 Accessed: 2024-04-19 17:39:26
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