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Collected Item: “English Pottery Jug with Iron Replacement Handle”

Title

English Pottery Jug with Iron Replacement Handle

Uploaded by (if you want to be credited)

Andrew Baseman Collection

Type of object

Jug

Material(s)

Glazed soft-paste pottery

Category

Mended Item

Maker

Lowestoft

Era

c.1780

Date of any modification

Metal replacement handle was added after 1780, sometime in the early to late 1800s.

Region and/or country (additional to map location)

Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Brief description/ overview

Pear shaped sparrow beak jug with hand painted cobalt underglaze Chinoiserie decoration on the outside of Pagoda and Trees with a lattice bored on the inside, with iron replacement handle

Website

http://blog.andrewbaseman.com/?p=10200

Source or owner

Andrew Baseman

Provenance

Purchased on April 27, 2015 in an antiques shop in Dublin, Ireland.
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