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This jug, however, was discovered at Browsholme, Lancashire, home of the Parker family since at least the 17th century. The house was something of a time-warp: stacks of 18th-century Chinese armorial dinner plates survived in the dining room, while weapons and buckskin riding boots from the English Civil War were found in the hall. It is possible, therefore, that the V&A is only the second owner of this jug, an object designed for display.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Although the London delftware industry was still in its infancy in 1620, it is apparent that experienced Netherlandish potters were reproducing the sophisticated wares that they had made in their homeland. Nothing like this successful combination of contemporary print-designs, painted fruit and foliage copied from Netherlandish and Italian maiolica and a range of vivid oxide colours had been been seen in England before.","physicalDescription":"Neck and body painted with fruit and a bird below the handle in blue, ochre and pale green.  The neck has the initials C/R E in blue. On the front of the body an oval panel containing a standing figure of a young man wearing a cartwheel ruff, doublet and voluminous Venetian breeches, garters at the knee, stockings, shoes with rosettes, holding a hat with a hand over his heart and the inscription  I.AM NO. BEGGAR. I. CAN. NOT. CRAVE. BUT. YU. KNOW. THE. THING. THAT. I. WOULD. HAVE  all in blue.  Bands of ornament on handle and at neck and foot in blue.  White interior.\nBody colour: Pale buff.\nGlaze: White, thick and lumpy with bluish specks over a white slip which is visible on the foot and under the handle.\nShape: Base unglazed, slightly concave, without foot-rim.  Handle flat with concave groove inside and outside and a rounded terminal.  (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. <font -u>Delftware</font>. 1997)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Tin glaze","id":"AAT233436"},{"text":"Earthenware","id":"x29356"}],"techniques":[{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"},{"text":"Painted","id":"x30138"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Tin-glazed earthenware, painted","categories":[{"text":"Delftware","id":"THES48969"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AW2507","2006AM5287","2006AW0249","2006AW0248","2006AW0247","2006AN9421","2006AM5288"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"58C","id":"THES49235"},"free":"","case":"CA5","shelf":"","box":"22"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Jug","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Southwark","id":"x29479"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1620","earliest":"1615-01-01","latest":"1624-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"32.2","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Height: 12 5/8 ins\nDiameter:  D. 22.5 cms (8 7/8 ins)","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Inscribed C/R E ....","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Col. J.W.R. Parker, C.B. Purchased from Col. R.G. Parker, D.S.O., F.S.A., Browsholme, Lancashire, 1974.\nExhibited: Burlington Fine Arts Club, No: D.52, Pl: XXVII. Rijksmuseum, No: 7.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A man, fruit and an inscription","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Archer, Michael. <font -u>Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum</font>. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Rackham and Read, p.43, Fig: 5."},{"reference":{"text":"Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. 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He stands with his hand on his heart and the inscription suggests that he is suffering from unrequited love.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.5-1974"],"accessionNumberNum":"5","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1974,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"<u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.","id":"THES50964"},"number":"C1."}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP2808","2019LR5151","2019LU7917","2019LT9567","2019LW5916"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-11","recordCreationDate":"2000-01-29","availableToBook":false}}