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Collection Item: Puzzle Jug
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Object name
- Puzzle jug
- Object category
- Ceramic
- Creators
- Unknown (Potter)
- Description
- A puzzle jug of red earthenware the body coated with a brownish green glaze. There is a turned band around the waist of the jug. The three spouts are moulded as snakes with their tails curled down across the body of the jug. The neck of the jug is pierced with a pattern of slots and circles. The jug is topped with a gallery of triangular crenellations.
- Production date start
- 1600
- Production date end
- 1750
- Period
- Tudor
- Elizabethan
- Stuart
- Jacobean
- Charles I and Civil War
- Commonwealth
- Restoration
- William and Mary
- Queen Anne
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2001.7456
- Alternative number
- 69/a
- 3292
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.666
- 2.45
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 15001680
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 16.0 cm
- Whole diameter 13.5 cm
- Whole width 17.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Potter)
- School/style
- Slipware
