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Cream jug: C.606-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

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Description

Small salt-glazed stoneware jug painted in enamels with Chinese famille rose style floral decoration.

White stoneware salt-glazed and painted overglaze in pink, yellow, blue, orange, green and black enamels. The jug has slightly inward-curving sides, a wavy rim and a round foot. The loop handle has an angular kick on the lower terminal. The outside of the jug is painted with a flowering branch, including a large pink flower on one side of the jug. Around the inside of the rim is a border of flowers.

Notes

History note: Provenance unidentified before collection of Mrs Cater, Colchester; bought by Mr Hunt as part of Lot 47 at the sale of the Cater collection at Sotheby’s on 23 July 1925 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest.

Measurements and weight

Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa 1755 CE - Circa 1765 CE

Note

The jug’s floral motifs and soft colours, especially the rose-pink, are designed to emulate the characteristic features of the Chinese famille rose style of decoration. This style was used on porcelain produced in China in the 18th-century for the western market, where it was bought by the wealthy elite and viewed as the height of sophistication and fashion. English potters working in salt-glazed stoneware often emulated styles from Oriental porcelain in order to make their wares appeal to the middle classes, who aspired to the fashions of the gentry but could not afford genuine Chinese wares.

School or Style

Rococo
famille rose

Components of the work

Body

Materials used in production

pink, yellow, blue, orange, green and black Enamels
white Stoneware
Salt-glaze

Techniques used in production

Painting overglaze
Salt-glazing

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: stick-on, octagonal white paper collector’s label with blue-border

  • Text: 4578 small salt glaze jug painted with flowers. b at the Cater Sale at Sotheby\July 23, 1925
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.606-1928
Primary reference Number: 75628
Old catalogue number: 4578
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 14 February 2022 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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