Jug

England

About 1810

  • Titles Jug (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium pearlware
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.295.1998
  • Work Type jug
  • Classification Containers

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Radiant bust front.
Oval medallion of black basalt with the bas relief portrait of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, self frame, pierced to hang.
Frieze tablet of solid light blue jasper with applied white jasper relief decoration of the scene Offering to Peace, featuring eight figures, from left to right Ceres holding a cornucopia, a female figure holding a branch and tending a fire on a tripod burner, Cupid holding a bow with a quiver next to a female figure with a small sheep and holding a floral crown, and a female figure holding a child's hand, the child standing next to two small vessels, on the right a female figure holding an offering over a low brazier, and the figure of Hera with staff and peacock.
Oval blue jasper Nicolo intaglio with black profile of Caesar's head, daggers, and a liberty cap, "EID MAR" (Ides of March)