Cream or Milk Jug

Artists

Description

Cast, the shell-shaped body on openwork tri-form foot formed as an entwined snake, the sides resembling the flutes and spiralling of a shell with foliage descending from the rim, the front with a lizard, the openwork handle formed as a trailing leafy tendril hended by a flowerhead set assymetrically to the body.

Dimensions

8.9 × 12.4 × 6.9 cm (3 1/2 × 4 7/8 × 2 11/16 in.) 213 g

Provenance

Lord Swaything, London, sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, May 6, 1924, lot 13]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.