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Object Type
Museum number: AF.3152
Description: Jug; earthenware; red earthenware glazed brown with narrow neck, and decorated in gold and silver. Silver lid. In front an oval cartouche with shepherd piping to shepherdess; above is an inscription; fruit behind. Domed cover with thumb-piece.
Production date: 1730 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Bayreuth
Materials: earthenware; silver; gold
Technique: glazed; gilded; silvered
Dimensions: Height: 27.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Text from Read and Tonnochy 1928, 'Catalogue of Silver Plate' (Franks Bequest): The ware was then thought to be 'the red Meissen ware made by Böttger'. Dr. Julius Lessing thinks it was made at Plaue, Brandenburg.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1897
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: AF.3152

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