Cream Jug
c. 1825
19th Century
3 3/4 in. x 2 7/8 in.
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
stoneware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1980.76
An English Jasperware pitcher with molded decoration showing a mythological scene.
Brown Jasperware form, in approximately dutch shape; the neck rouletted then covered with white sprigged grapevines; the body sprigged with white classical figures, including griffin, putti, and a double-handled vase with ornate trailings; the snip molded in a bearded mans face with a ring emanating from his mouth; the handle with shell-form terminals and a spined leafy pattern and a tongue-like protuberance
Condition: Several minor chips at the tip of the pouring lip, hairline crack across base