Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Elizabethan Tigerware Jug

Artist I.W.C. (English)

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1580

MediumGilded silver and stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)

InscribedMarks for the date, London, and maker are stamped below the bird frieze on the collar: date letter "C" in a shield, Lion passant, maker's initials "IWC" in a rectangle. The box hinge is engraved with initials: "IP", "MP", and the later engraved initials "WC".

Credit LineGift of the Mowbray Arch Society, 1994

Object number94.32

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 204

DescriptionThis silver-gilt mounted tigerware jug is a bulbous shape. The base and rim have silver-gilt mounts; the basal mounts with bands of egg-and-dart stamping, strapwork and foliate chasing and scalloped upper rim. The neck band is engraved with birds in foliage landscape, the cover chased with strapwork and foliage, centering on a cast finial on raised section. The box hinge is engraved with a border, with cast winged cherub thumbpiece and foliate handle guard.

Label TextI.W.C. English Elizabethan Tigerware Jug, ca. 1580 Gilded silver and stoneware Gift of the Mowbray Arch Society 94.32 Exhibition History"Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., October 25,1996 - February 16, 1997 Published ReferencesSimilar jugs are illustrated and discussed in P. Glanville, SILVER IN TUDOR AND EARLY STUART ENGLAND, Figs. 186, 188, 193; pp. 317, 320, 326. Type citation: Sotheby's, _Early English Silver from the Collection of the Late Charles L. Poor_ Sale N08154, New York, NY, October 26, 2005, 220-221, cat. no. 144.