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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, pierced, incised, and salt-glazed
White stoneware, pierced, incised, and salt-glazed. Pear-shaped body with high neck divided near the middle by a projecting tube communicating with the loop handle, and having four sucking spouts (one restored) projecting from it. Above this are two rows of triangular perforations. Below are perforations forming three rosettes with small circular holes in the spaces between them. The rim at the top has a scalloped edge with a narrow rope-like border below. There is a band of beading on the shoulder, and a ropelike border on the edge of the foot. The front has an incised inscription: 'From Mother Earth I took/My birth and now a Joke to/Man so I stand here fill'd with/Good Cheer Come taste me/If you can'. The base is inscribed 'J. Ford'.
History note: Sotheby's, 5 March 1926, lot 13, purchased by Hunt for £6 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1760
-
1775
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Diameter 12 cm
Handle-front
Width 11.5 cm
Inscription
Neck
Inscription present: in script
Accession number: C.495-1928
Primary reference Number: 75295
Old object number: 4928
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Puzzle jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75295 Accessed: 2024-12-18 15:22:12
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