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Jug, hot water, and cover
Hot water jug, hard-paste porcelain, rounded foot-rim, pear-shaped ogee body and cylindrical neck, beak spout with foliate moulding to the underside, double intertwined handle with spreading leaves at the terminals, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower head with stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body a riverside landscape with buildings and figures, two smaller landscapes to the top of the cover, gilt lines around the exterior lip-rim of the jug and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the finial picked out in puce, yellow and green.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35743
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15.6
diam
(cm): 8.6
Width
(cm): 11.9
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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