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Pearlware jug, with, on each side, an arrangement of flowers and foliage in polychrome enamels, and inscribed on the front 'A. PRESENT/FOR TOBY/-1823-'.
Jug. Pearlware. White earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, pale purple and dark reddish-brown enamel-colours. Ovoid with rounded projecting footring, short cylindrical neck with projecting, curved lip, and half S-shaped handle. Painted on each side with an arrangement of flowers and foliage including roses, and inscribed on the front in brown 'A. PRESENT/FOR TOBY/-1823-', with a floral spray above and below. The neck is decorated with a continuous floral spray with brown bands above and below. There is a brown band round the footring and a stylised spray of foliage down the back of the handle.
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands.
Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997) by Rylands, G.H.W.
19th Century, Early#
Production date:
AD 1823
: dated
Probably made in Staffordshire or Yorkshire
Decoration composed of enamels ( in blue, green, yellow, orange, pale purple and dark reddish-brown enamel-colours)
Lead-glazing : White earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, orange, pale purple and dark reddish-brown enamel-colours.
Accession number: C.51-1997
Primary reference Number: 75353
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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