Collection Item: Puzzle Jug
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Object name
- Puzzle jug
- Object category
- Ceramic
- Object subcategory
- Factory ceramic
- Creators
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Description
- A large Pearlware puzzle jug with a pierced gallery and three spouts projecting from the neck. The body is a flatened disc with a reticulated centre with a small figure of a soldier vissible inside. The jug stands on a circular moulded foot connected to a the body by a plain stem. The body, stem and foot are painted with sprays of foliage in brown, yellow, green and blue.
- Production date start
- 1788
- Production date end
- 1789
- Period
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2001.4940
- Alternative number
- MM360
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.666
- 2.45
- 2.829
- 1.81
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 15001428
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 29.3 cm
- Whole diameter 10.7 cm
- Body width 21.0 cm
- Body depth 7.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Location
- Hunslet
- Hunslet
- School/style
- Pearlware
