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Description: | Public:
Lidded jug in the form of a bear holding the figure of a man to its chest, buff stoneware with a dense brown salt-glaze, decorated with shredded clay simulating fur.
Private:
Jug in the form of a bear sitting upright on hind legs, constructed from thrown cylindrical bottle with tapered neck. Two applied lozenges to sides above base simulating back legs, above flat incised pads applied at base for paws, small applied triangle at the back representing tail. Two applied straps for forelegs at shoulders, folded round body toward the front, with incised paws at the ends. Clasped to the bear's chest in its paws a press-moulded figure of a man in a frock coat standing on small pedestal, circular hole in his face acting as a pipe rest. Modelled wooden stake against bear's body to right, broken at the top. Cover in the form of bear's head, thrown globular bowl with cylindrical neck and thrown tube applied to one side to represent bear's snout, pierced along each side to indicate teeth, with pierced hole at the top bearing two links of a chain. Two applied button eyes and folded upright ears. Head and body coated with coarsely shredded clay grog simulating fur, reserving neck, forelegs, paws, snout, eyes and ears. The whole decorated with dark manganese brown colouring beneath a lustrous salt-glaze.
Technique: thrown
Technique: moulding
Technique: salt-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
bear jug made in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe, 1750-1775, (1923.392). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2624 | Go to resource |
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