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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug, decorated underglaze in powder-blue, with flowers in onglaze polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain milk jug, decorated underglaze in powder-blue, onlgaze in polychrome enamels and gilt. Pear-shaped with sparrow-beak spout, footring and loop handle. Powder-blue ground reserved with three fan-shaped panels containing polychrome dishevelled birds among leafy branches, and two circular medallions containing a ladybird and a moth, each outlined with gilding and sprays of leaves and flowers. There is a gilt band round the rim and two leaves and dots down the back of the handle.
History note: Collection of Miss A. de la Perelle, Jersey.
Bequeathed by Christobel Evelyn Fuller
Height: 9.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1965-11-25) by Fuller, Christobel Evelyn
18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
See correspondence of 26th October, 1976 from Miss de la Perelle, Jersey relating to the history of the piece.
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) powder-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.5.3-1965
Primary reference Number: 37022
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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