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Jug, coffee, and cover
Coffee jug, hard-paste porcelain, bulbous pear-shaped form, standing on three scrolled leaf-moulded feet, an impressed basket-work border around the neck, beak spout with goat mask to the base, handle in the form of entwined snakes, domed cover with pinecone finial; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the jug two large sprays of flowers and several scattered floral sprigs, further floral sprigs to the cover, the feet, spout and handle picked out in puce, chocolate-brown lines to the rims of the jug and cover, the finial picked out in brown.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36588
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24
diam
(cm): 12
Width
(cm): 16
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case A
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