Cow Milk Jug and Cover

Staffordshire

About 1800

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A heavy and wide, bucket-shaped vase that tapers into a cylinder to form the vase's base. The vase is glazed an olive green/khaki color, then covered irregularly with a light green glaze. On the bucket-shaped part of the vase is a blue-black drip glaze tinged with green that extends to the bottom of the form. The lip of the vase extends out slightly and is light green, then turning into mustard yellow. The interior of the vase is an irregular brown with thin light and dark lines around the form. There is some dark, irregular glaze at the base of the vase's interior.
Small oval medallion of black basalt with the bearded portrait bust of the Roman general and politician Quintilius draped and with laurel leaf crown facing right, below the bust impressed QUINTILI., set into a simple, tooled silver mount with an eye for a chain.
Bust in profile right in Austrain general's uniform with sash and ermine mantle.
Oval basalt plaque with Hercules and the Erymanthean boar