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Production: Enoch Wood and Sons (Possibly)
Earthenware jug with applied white classical reliefs, copper lustre ground, and pink lustre border, inscribed 'T B/Jefus Lane/Cambridge/1820' in purple enamel in a reserve on the front.
Red earthenware, with applied white reliefs and white slip-coated interior, decorated with copper (gold) lustre, pink lustre, and purple enamel. The jug has curved sides, slight shoulders and a vertical neck with a fluted projecting lip on one side and a moulded handle on the other. Under the spout there is an oval panel with a raised edge and on each side, an applied classical relief. On each side of the neck there is a spray of stylised leaves and buds reserved by a resist process in a pink lustre ground, and the front panel is inscribed 'T B/Jefus Lane/Cambridge/1820' in purple enamel.
History note: Purchased
Height: 12.0 cm
Width: 13.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1996-04-29) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
19th Century, Early#
Production date:
dated
AD 1820
Jesus Lane takes its name from Jesus College, Cambridge. On the jug the f in Jesus is a now obsolete way of writing s which appears like a script f.
Decoration
composed of
lustre
( pink lustre, copper lustre)
enamel
( purple)
Base
Diameter 7.4 cm
Accession number: C.10-1996
Primary reference Number: 71175
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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