Jug

Wedgwood

  • Titles Jug (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wedgwood, England, est. 1759
  • Medium caneware with black relief
  • Dimensions 5 3/4 x 5 x 3 3/4 in. (14.6 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.1195.2011
  • Work Type jug
  • Classification Containers

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Pair of cast-iron earrings, pierced and with scrolling foliage; extended earwires, one bent.