Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, painted with birds and plants in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black.
Soft-paste porcelain cream jug, painted in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black. The pear-shaped jug has a sparrow beak spout, and rococo scroll handle, on a low footring. It is painted in famille-verte style with two herons among rocks and flowering plants, an insect and birds in flight above.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 7.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1752
-
1754
This style of bird painting is also found on sauceboats and dry mustard pots.
Decoration composed of enamels ( yellow, green, blue, and purple)
Steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, painted in onglaze yellow, green, blue, and purple enamels outlined in black
Accession number: C.111-1933
Primary reference Number: 34350
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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