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jug(spouted)

Object Type: jug (spouted)
Museum number: 1908,0729.2
Description: Jug, body of flattened spherical shape, tall neck flaring at rim, hollow spreading foot and strap handle. The spout is formed as the head and neck of a dragon with applied features and flanking webbed wings and supports a blank shield of arms. The decoration is divided into four zones, each zone has slightly spiralling fluting in different directions. Earthenware covered on the outside and on much of the interior with a white slip and semi-opaque glaze.
Production date: 16thC (2nd quarter)
Production place: Made in: Po Plain; Made in: Veneto (?; Southern); Made in: Emilia-Romagna (?; North-East); Made in: Lombardy (?; South-East)
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Stefano Bardini; Field Collection by: Ceccarelli (?); Field Collection by: F Argnani (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Padua (?)
Materials: earthenware
Technique: slipped; glazed; relief
Dimensions: Diameter: 9.10 centimetres (max); Height: 21.60 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 442); Wallis 1907 / Byzantine Ceramic Art: Notes on Examples of Byzantine Pottery Recently Found at Constantinople (fig.55)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry Wallis
Acquisition date: 1908
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1908,0729.2
Conservation: Treatment: 19 Sep 1985

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