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Jug and cover
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, pear-shaped body with rounded foot, beak spout modelled with a female mask and rococo scrolls to the underside, and a scrolled handle with foliate moulding, domed cover with a finial in the form of a pear with a stem and leaves; finely painted in red enamel with to the front of the jug a landscape with a figure and buildings, a smaller landscape to the cover, around the rest of the jug and cover scattered floral sprigs, the mask to the spout painted in naturalistic enamels, the rococo scrolls picked out in puce, the finial painted in naturalistic enamels.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36640
Creation/Production
Ansbach State Factory
Date: 1765-1775
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17.8
diam
(cm): 9.6
Width
(cm): 12.4
Height
(in): 7
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
Location
In store
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