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Puzzle jug
Puzzle jug, buff coloured earthenware, standing on a roughly cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous body, high cylindrical neck ornamented with a design of perforations, short spout fed by a tube running around the lip-rim and down the handle to a hole in the lower interior body of the jug, plain loop handle with a small spur to the lower terminal; covered all over apart from the base with a greyish-pink tinged white tin-glaze, crudely decorated with to the front of the jug a stylized iris in shades of blue, yellow and ochre. The foot-rim chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36057
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 18th century
Acquisition
Purchase, 1904
Measurements
Height
(cm): 18.7
diam
(cm): 13.1
Width
(cm): 17.7
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 5
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware, faience
Location
In store
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