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Jug, white smear-glazed stoneware, oval body, standing on a shallow spreading foot, body intensely vitrified and slightly distorted, the interior glazed; neck and foot turned, sprigged with a band of acanthus leaves below a frieze of mythological figures comprising on one side four putti and a goat from `Drunken Silenus' and on the other Venus and Adonis and three Maenads flanking a wreath with the inscription COTTAGE LLANBERIS in a black rustic script, band of vine leaves and grapes above; angular loop handle with shell and scroll terminals; foliate spout (restored)
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30214
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of NACF, 14/11/1990
Purchased with support from The National Art Collections Fund
Measurements
Height
(cm): 22.2
Length
(cm): 22.8
Width
(cm): 17.2
Height
(in): 8
Length
(in): 9
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
moulded
forming
Applied Art
sprigged
decoration
Applied Art
Material
smear-glazed stoneware
Location
In store
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