Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Milk jug

Unknown (Factory)

Milk jug, white earthenware, short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body tapering inwards towards the neck, beak spout, grooved loop handle; transfer-printed in underglaze blue with around the body the 'willow' pattern with pagodas, figures crossing a bridge and two swallows flying above, an elaborate border around the neck with angular scrollwork and stylized flowers on a lattice-pattern ground, a very worn red-brown enamel edge to the lip-rim, a red-brown enamel stripe to the handle.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 36223

Creation/Production

Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Staffordshire
Period: 19th century (early)

Acquisition

Bequest, 1929

Measurements

Height (cm): 9.3
diam (cm): 6.3
Width (cm): 9
Height (in): 3
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3

Techniques

Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art

Material

Earthenware
Enamel
Glaze

Location

In store
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