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Cream or Milk Jug
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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.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
Title: Cream or Milk Jug
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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.
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