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Production: Unknown
White earthenware with blue tinted glaze (pearlware), painted underglaze in blue. The jug has a circular recessed base, straight sides sloping outwards towards the rim, and a sparrow-beak lip. The back of the jug with its handle are missing. The exterior is decorated in Chinese style with a a house beside a fence flanked by trees and grasses, above which are five groups of three dots representing flying birds. Inside the rim and lip there is a crisss-cross border between horizontal lines, and below, a scalloped line with groups of three dots hanging from the points.
History note: Found in an excavation in London by G.F. Lawrence of Wandsworth, and given by him to Bernard Rackham (1876-1964)
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Height: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
18th Century, Late
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
This jug belongs to a large class of underglaze blue painted pearlware which feature a small Chinese house or pagoda flanked by trellis fences and differently shaped trees, often with birds or dots representing groups of birds in the sky above. Different factories had their own versions of the basic design, but few pieces bear factory marks.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Base
Diameter 4.9 cm
blue-tinted
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.4.58-1964
Primary reference Number: 74892
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Fragment of a jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74892 Accessed: 2024-11-15 15:18:12
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