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Jug and cover
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, pear-shaped body with waisted foot-rim, beak spout with moulded scrolls to either side and double scroll handle with foliate moulding at the shoulder, round domed cover with a pine cone finial; decorated in purple monochrome with around the body and the cover scattered sprays and sprigs of Oriental flowers heightened with touches of gilt, around the rim of the cover a scroll border in purple monochrome with gilt flowes, the spoiut, handle and finial picked out in puce.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36357
Creation/Production
Höchst Porcelain Factory
Date: 1755-1765
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17.1
diam
(cm): 8.4
Width
(cm): 11.4
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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