Cream Jug

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Cream Jug
Datec. 1750–1765
Made inEngland
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
Dimensions4 × 3 5/8 in. (10.2 × 9.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.56.108
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Ceramics Study Room
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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionPotters made agateware by combining and layering different colors of clay before forming the pots on the wheel or in molds. When thrown on a potter’s wheel, agateware typically exhibits swirling spirals of color. The most elaborately patterned agatewares feature clays stacked in thin layers before rolling, slicing, and recombining the components into slabs that the potter pressed into molds. Complex forms like square teapots required multiple molds.
Provenance[Ginsburg & Levy, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, October 24, 1956; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Exhibition History

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Cream Jug
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.60.11.A,.B
Cream Pot (Creamer)
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.60.21
Teapot
c. 1740–1760
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.60.10.A,.B
Knife and Fork
c. 1740–1760
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware), steel
B.94.6.1,.2
Teapot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.56.147.A,.B
Teapot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.57.82.A,.B
Teapot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.56.109.A,.B
Bowl
c. 1740–1745
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.60.19
Teapot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.60.20.A,.B
Teapot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.2017.17.A,.B
Teapot
c. 1745–1750
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.2016.5.A,.B
Chocolate Pot
c. 1750–1765
Lead-glazed earthenware (agate ware)
B.56.107.A,.B