Milk jug, white earthenware, short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body tapering inwards towards the neck, beak spout, grooved loop handle; transfer-printed in underglaze blue with around the body the 'willow' pattern with pagodas, figures crossing a bridge and two swallows flying above, an elaborate border around the neck with angular scrollwork and stylized flowers on a lattice-pattern ground, a very worn red-brown enamel edge to the lip-rim, a red-brown enamel stripe to the handle.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Staffordshire
Period: 19th century (early)
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 9.3
diam
(cm): 6.3
Width
(cm): 9
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 3
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Transfer-printed
Decoration
Applied Art
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Enamel
Glaze