Cream jug
c. 1800
19th Century
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection.
Accession Number:
1959.155
An English black Basaltware creamer with molded relief swag decoration. Basaltware was perfected by Wedgwood, but made by several other English potteries. Large edge flake to the rim. Press-molded modified oval shape; each side with a curved panel of double swags with pendant ends, above a frieze of modified shell-like leaves; the handle with ornate molding and leafy terminals; the pouring lip integral to the body