cream jug

Summary

Public: Pear-shaped lidded cream jug on three mask and paw feet, cream coloured earthenware, with applied relief flowers and scrolls, decorated with mottled brown underglaze oxide bleeding into lead glaze, reliefs picked out in gilt details. Private: Pear-shaped cream jug on three mask and paw feet, tapering to cylindrical neck with sparrow beak lip and strap loop handle with pinched and flattened spur at lower terminal. Applied stamped relief decoration around belly beneath lip of flowers and scrollwork. Cream coloured earthenware body sponged with manganese brown underglaze oxide, colours bleeding into glaze to give mottled streaky effect. Applied relief decoration and feet masks picked out in gilt, some of which is worn away. Flat circular cover with bird finial and two stamped scrollwork and leaf reliefs, decorated in mottled brown.