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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Pear Shaped Milk Jug, "Astley" or "Harvest Bug" Pattern
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Pear Shaped Milk Jug, "Astley" or "Harvest Bug" Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1765-70
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.136
On View
On view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Astley" or "Harvest Bug" pattern pear-shaped milk jug painted in a famille-rose palette heightened in gilding with a gold-spotted black beetle crawling toward a flowering peony branch near two smaller flowering branches and two sprigs, the rim interior with an iron-red scallop-and-dot border, and the back affixed with a grooved loop handle.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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