Objects
Jug
Alcohol
Consumption
Healths, pledging, and drinking rituals
[taken from catalogue entry]
Jug; tin-glazed earthenware; commemorating the Restoration of Charles II; painted in blue on a white ground with two panels enclosing a ship, building and trees at the sides and with a central medallion with crowned half-figure of Charles II in blue, yellow and manganese; rope-twisted blue handle connecting globular body to narrow flaring neck with pinched spout; neck and solid spread foot painted with stylised leaves; inscription and date
Inscription [on belly of vessel]:
KING CHARLES THE 2 1660 S:B
Creator
S B
[Not specified]
Production
Dates of Production: exact 1660
Pickleherring Pottery, Southwark, London, England
Materials
Earthenware
Earthenware- white
Museological Details
Jug
British Museum
1960,1101.1
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