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Description: | Oviform jug in the form of an owl, tapering to flared circular foot, with tall, straight neck, single loop handle above applied modelled tail, applied relief wings on either side and two applied relief claws above foot. Cover in the form of an owl's head forms a drinking cup. Body, handle and head decorated with a marbled pattern of trailed and feathered red and white slip, showing dark brown and cream through lead glaze. Plain orange-red neck and foot. Large round sunken eyes and small modelled beak to head, beneath prominent eyebrow ridge, eyes in dark brown within large white circles outlined in brown with white spots. Small slip trailed cream double scroll to forehead above beak.
Technique: applied relief
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: thrown
Material: slip-trailed
Material: feathered
Material: lead-glazed
owl jug made in Staffordshire, England, Britain, Europe, 1675-1725, (1923.150). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2372 | Go to resource |
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