Name/Title
Cream JugEntry/Object ID
A1982.14.119Description
Cream or milk jug having a pear-shaped body, standing on a foot ring, with a small triangular spout and a simple curved handle (now gone), painted in underglaze blue with a line at the foot, a Chinese landscape scene with a man on a horse and a man in a pavilion around the body, and a latticework band at the rim.
Originally this jug would have had a domed cover.Context
Of the two most popular types of tea consumed in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, only Bohea, a black tea, was taken with milk. Green tea, which is dried but not fermented, was generally taken plain, and was initially more popular. After the introduction of the darker and richer Bohea and other black teas, which are dried and fermented, the creamer became an integral part of tea equipage.Collection
CeramicsMade/Created
Date made
circa 1725 - circa 1740Time Period
18th CenturyPlace
City
JingdezhenLocation
ChinaRegion
East AsiaContinent
AsiaMaterial
Hard Paste Porcelain
