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Milk jug and cover
Milk jug, black basalt, inset base, half-barrel form body with concave neck, the spout broken off and missing, high loop handle decorated with an applied band of foliage on a granulated ground, round domed cover with to the centre a finial modelled in the 'Widow of Zarapheth' form (a seated female figure in flowing drapes and in a mourning attitude), the exterior body of the jug decorated with a broad band of engine-turned squares forming diamond shapes with a milled band above and a granulated border below, a similar band of engine-turned squares around the sides of the cover. The rim of the cover chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35936
Acquisition
Gift, 1905
Given by Herbert Eccles
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.9
diam
(cm): 7.8
Width
(cm): 10.4
Height
(in): 5
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
engine-turned
decoration
Applied Art
Material
basalt
Location
In store
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