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Jug and cover
Jug, hard-paste porcelain, pear-shaped body with high foot, plain beak spout, elaborate scrolled handle, high domed cover the finial of which has broken off; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to the body and cover a criss-cross pattern of floral festoons tied by purple ribbons and with two European birds perched amongst them, gilt lines around the foot-rim and neck of the jug and the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in puce and gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36748
Creation/Production
Limbach Porcelain Factory
Date: 1775-1785
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 17.2
diam
(cm): 8.7
Width
(cm): 12
Height
(in): 6
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
slip-cast
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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