Crested miniature

Museum number:
7-10159
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2405
Description:
puzzle jug; bottom described as "Model of an Old English Puzzle Jug at the South Kensington Museum London". General shape is a squatted inverted egg shape; the bottom flattens out into a small (3 mm) cylindrical foot. The wider top angles inward into the wide cylindrical neck (3 cm). The neck is laced with vertical ellipses and triangles at the top and bottom between each ellipse. The mouth is a wide lip with a double line gold trim. Evenly spaced on each side of the mouth is a button with an incised dimple. The handle is attached to where the fourth button would be placed. The handle curves down in a large arch connecting to the widest part of the body extending along the body stopping about ⅓ from the bottom. On each side of the handle are buttons growing smaller at the top to the largest at the bottom. The button second from the bottom is hollow, serving as the place to drink from. On the back of the jug is written in Old English font "Try how to drink and not to spill and prove the utmost of thy skill." The front hold two shields angled toward each other at the bottom both in a classic shape. The left shield is divided Fess style, the top portion has a yellow background with an orange lion on all fours with its right paw lifted. The middle section has a dark blue background with a two towered castle on each side of the towers is a rosette. The bottom section is rippled water alternating white and blue stripes. The right shield has a yellow background with an orange formy cross in the center is a yellow rosette, in each corner of the quarters created by the cross is an orange rosette. Beneath the two shields is a flowing yellow ribbon that twists together up and behind the two shields. Written on the ribbon is "Be just and Fear not", beneath this ribbon is written "City of Carlisle". Does not have any makers' mark.
Donor:
University Art Museum (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
England
Verbatim coll. place:
England
Collector:
unknown
Materials:
Ceramic (material), Paint (coating), and Porcelain (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1968
Context of use:
souvenir
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Crested miniature, accession number 7-10159, described as puzzle jug; bottom described as "Model of an Old English Puzzle Jug at the South Kensington Museum London". General shape is a squatted inverted egg shape; the bottom flattens out into a small (3 mm) cylindrical foot. The wider top angles inward into the wide cylindrical neck (3 cm). The neck is laced with vertical ellipses and triangles at the top and bottom between each ellipse. The mouth is a wide lip with a double line gold trim. Evenly spaced on each side of the mouth is a button with an incised dimple. The handle is attached to where the fourth button would be placed. The handle curves down in a large arch connecting to the widest part of the body extending along the body stopping about ⅓ from the bottom. On each side of the handle are buttons growing smaller at the top to the largest at the bottom. The button second from the bottom is hollow, serving as the place to drink from. On the back of the jug is written in Old English font "Try how to drink and not to spill and prove the utmost of thy skill." The front hold two shields angled toward each other at the bottom both in a classic shape. The left shield is divided Fess style, the top portion has a yellow background with an orange lion on all fours with its right paw lifted. The middle section has a dark blue background with a two towered castle on each side of the towers is a rosette. The bottom section is rippled water alternating white and blue stripes. The right shield has a yellow background with an orange formy cross in the center is a yellow rosette, in each corner of the quarters created by the cross is an orange rosette. Beneath the two shields is a flowing yellow ribbon that twists together up and behind the two shields. Written on the ribbon is "Be just and Fear not", beneath this ribbon is written "City of Carlisle". Does not have any makers' mark.

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