jug

Summary

Public: Ovoid jug with cylindrical neck and spurred handle. White earthenware, with relief-moulded portraits of Admiral Lord Jervis on either side, painted in brown, green, yellow, yellow ochre and blue beneath pearlware glaze. Private: Ovoid jug on slight foot, with cylindrical neck, inset shell-edge moulded lip and loop handle with spurs at thumbrest and above lower terminal. Relief-moulded decoration to either side comprising three-quarter length frontal portrait of Admiral Lord Jervis in yellow uniform with ochre cloak and brown hat holding trumpet in right hand, flanked by two ships in brown and ochre on a green sea containing two dolphin masks. Side to left of handle bears two scrolls flanking central portrait, inscribed 'LORD / JARVIS' (sic) in brown, and is missing one dolphin head. Relief border of stiff palm leaves alternating blue and green to foot above plain brown banded rim, stiff leaves in green and ochre to neck beneath brown banded rim. Shell-edge moulding to lip picked out in blue, brown chevron border to handle. Finely crazed blue pearlware glaze.