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Pear shaped cream jug, soft paste porcelain, printed and painted overglaze with Chinese figures in coloured enamels, underglaze blue border inside rim.
Private:
Pear shaped cream jug, swelling towards base and flaring at rim, with ribbed loop handle, tapered footring and projecting sparrow's beak lip. Printed overglaze round sides with two Chinese figure groups. To left of handle, two figures taking tea at a low table, two vases of flowers on either side. To right, two women and a child, one carrying a tea tray, the other a fan, small willow tree in a pot behind her. Prints coloured in with blue, black, green yellow, purce, white and iron red enamels and gilt. Underglaze cobalt blue border inside neck rim of repeated scale pattern, slightly blurred.
Technique: transfer printing
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: soft paste
Material: painted underglaze
Material: cobalt blue
Material: printed overglaze
Material: gilt
Material: enamelled overglaze
cream jug by Worcester, c 1765, (1920.758). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.1798 | Go to resource |
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