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Milk jug
Milk jug, hard-paste porcelain, bulbous body tapering inwards at the neck, beak spout with scale and scroll moulding, elaborate 'J-shaped' handle; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the body European birds perched on spreading branches, the spout and handle picked out in puce.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36972
Creation/Production
Zürich Porcelain Factory
Date: 1765-1770
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.7
diam
(cm): 7.8
Width
(cm): 9.8
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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