Description:
Pear-shaped jug with pecten shell design, Staffordshire, England, c. 1755. Slip cast, white salt-glazed stoneware milk jug, body of jug has horizontal beak spout, bellied shaped form with applied handle with pinched terminal and foot, molded in the form of a pecten shell of four rows of radiating fluting beneath a scroll device, the top of the jug has a rococo style, fleur-de-lis design with a pair of vases, there are also vining leaves and flowers near the spout and handle, the handle is round in section and has been beveled and notched at the arc, there is a mold seam where the two part of the mold came together. The jug has a domed oval foot fluted all around. The milk jug would have had a cover which is now lost. Condition: A chip on the spout, and chips on the footrim.
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