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.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Mainz, Germany
Period: 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
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Assembled
Forming
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Enamelled
Decoration
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Gilded
Decoration
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Glazed
Decoration
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Material
Hard-paste porcelain