The Wellby Collection

Cream jug

silver-gilt

c. 1740

13 cm height

Heraldry:: Crest of Lawley, Baron Wenlock (contemporary)
Inscription/Mark (unmarked)

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Place of Creation: London

WA2013.1.318

Cream jug, silver-gilt, ellaborately scrolling handle with a woman's head finial. The body decorated in relief with a cow reclining and a woman milking a cow. Around the foot with plants and creatures. Engraved beneath the lip with a crest beneath a baron's coronet, a wolf statant, identified by M. Wellby as for Lawley, Baron Wenlock.

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Bequeathed by Michael Wellby, 2012.