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Small pink lustre jug
Unidentified factory (Possibly)
White earthenware, glazed, hand-decorated and resist-lustred.
Ovoid body tapering to a slightly projecting foot, with a concave neck, curved lip and angular handle. Decorated over-glaze on the body with a wide resist-lustre band of hand-drawn, stylised leaves and flowers, with thin sgraffito scrolls added. There are two thin lustre bands around the shoulder, a thicker band around the inside and outside of the rim and a lustre outline along the sides of the handle. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised foot-rim.
Height: 12 cm
Width: 14 cm
Method of acquisition: Given by Gurney, Mrs
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1810
CE
-
Circa
1820
CE
Resist lustreware was typically produced by drawing, transfer printing or stencilling the design over-glaze then applying a wax or oily coating to the design with a fine brush. The jug was then coated in lustre, which only adhered to the unpainted parts. Pink lustre is produced by depositing minute amounts of gold onto the white earthenware surface. Silver lustre, which uses platinum, was however more popular for resist lustre jugs, which generally date from the early part of the nineteenth century. Leeds and Staffordshire were the main centres of production.
This type of jug was made for everyday use. The shape and size of this example suggest it is a milk jug.
Decoration
composed of
resist
( (oil or wax))
lustre
( pink)
Body
Decorartion
Parts
Accession number: C.3-1908
Primary reference Number: 74459
Old object number: G.9-1908
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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