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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
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.
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
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest.
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
Circa
1765
CE
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.
Body
pink, yellow, blue, orange, green and black
Enamels
white
Stoneware
Salt-glaze
Painting overglaze
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: stick-on, octagonal white paper collector’s label with blue-border
Accession number: C.606-1928
Primary reference Number: 75628
Old catalogue number: 4578
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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