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Collection Item: Vicar and Moses Jug
Basic info
- Collection
- Decorative Arts
- Title
- Vicar and Moses Jug
- Object name
- Jug
- Object category
- Ceramic
- Object subcategory
- Factory ceramic
- Creators
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Description
- A Pearlware jug, transfer over the glaze in black, with a long poem called "The Vicar and Moses" on one side. An illustration on the other side shows two of the characters, painted over in colours. The jug is edged in black and gilt over the glaze, with the symbol for Leeds (a hanging sheep) on the front above an inscription.
- Production date start
- 1780
- Production date end
- 1822
- Period
- Georgian
- Regency
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2000.4751
- Alternative number
- BN93
- 940
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.666
- 2.45
- 1.111
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- SHIC
- SHIC
- ID
- 15000919
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Earthenware (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 23.0 cm
- Whole diameter 15.0 cm
- Whole width 26.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Leeds Pottery Company (Pottery)
- Hartley, Greens and Company (Pottery)
- ()
- Location
- Hunslet
- Hunslet
- School/style
- Pearlware
