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Cream jug (part of a service)

Unknown Artist

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century porcelain tea sets usually comprised a teapot and stand, milk jug, sugar bowl, tea caddy, spoon tray, slop basin, six or twelve tea bowls with or without handles, and six or twelve saucers, a coffee pot and six or twelve coffee cups and a dish for cake. The Worcester factory made tea bowls with a handle if the decoration was European and without a handle for Oriental designs.

Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1939

c. 1765-75

Soft-paste porcelain

11.1 cm

39.140.68

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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