collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent

Additional Image:

The front of the jug with initials and date in gold, also showing the printed flowers around the inside of the neck.

 

View of the handle which is also printed with flowers.

 

Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

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

Date: 1824

Dimensions:

  • Height: 4.72 in (12.00 cm)

Maker: Rathbone

Description:

A jug bat-printed and colored with a woman waving aloft a bow which has been taken from a sleeping Cupid, and with roses around the neck. The same scene is repeated on the second side. This handle is typical of Rathbone and found on all sizes of their jugs; those using under-glaze blue in the decoration are usually marked with a blue R in...


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