IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47104 accession number: C.6-2002 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Beer jug. Relief-moulded buff earthenware, the interior slip-coated in white and the whole covered with very slightly bluish-grey tinted glaze. The jug has an ovoid body with a short cylindrical neck, and projecting spout, moulded in two halves. The handle is in the shape of a tapering hop branch which extends on each side of the neck into relief spray of hops and ears of barley corn. The lower part of the body is gadrooned. The underside is slightly recessed and glazed. object type: Earthenware jug, relief-moulded, slip coated and lead-glazed title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the donor from an antique shop in Catford, c.1950. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Valerie Kessels STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47104 PEOPLE ------------------- Minton, Henry Society of Arts SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking barley hops barley hops TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, relief moulded, slip-coated and glazed. relief-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1848 - 1848 creation date earliest: 1848 creation date latest: 1848 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Minton & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17 CITATIONS -------- Relief-Moulded Jugs 1820-1900 Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ---