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Jug and cover

Ansbach State Factory

Jug, hard-paste porcelain, rococo form, standing on a short rounded foot, pear-shaped body with cylindrical neck, to the front of the exterior body a cartouche of raised moulded scrolls enclosing a roughly oval panel, plain triangular beak spout, double-curved scrolled loop handle with elaborate foliate moulding to the upper part, small round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a rose with a stem and several leaves, one of which has partially broken off; finely painted with to the panel to the front of the exterior body of the jug a riverside landscape in puce, the moulded scrolls enclosing the panel picked out in gilt around the rest of the exterior body of the jug and the top of the cover are floral sprigs in puce, gilt bands around the foot-rim and lip-rim of the jug and around the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the rose finial painted in puce and green. Chips to the foot-rim and spout on the jug and the rim of the cover.

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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35550

Creation/Production

Ansbach State Factory
Date: 1767 ca

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 13.1
diam (cm): 7
Width (cm): 8.8
Height (in): 5
diam (in): 2
Width (in): 3

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

Front Hall, North Balcony : Case F

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Categories

Porslen yr Almaen | German porcelain Porslen | Porcelain Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Published online (Applied Art)
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