collection of Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

Additional Image:

Painted inscription J. Davis 1797 beneath the lip.

 

Shape Type: Miscellaneous

Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts

Date: 1797

Dimensions:

  • Height: 6.77 in (17.20 cm)

Maker: Unknown

Printer: Dannel (probably Daniel)

Printer's Mark:


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Description:

Pearlware jug with turned neck enamel painted in bands of brown red and green, and with a conventional border painted at the shoulder. On each side is a sepia printed design over-painted in enamel colors, the oval framed cartouche with cupid at a tomb inscribed  There is Rest in Heaven. The whole appears to have been slightly over fired.  To the bottom left of...


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