Minster Jug

ca. 1845

Charles Meigh, Designer Meigh Pottery, Manufacturer

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About the Artwork

Title Minster Jug

Artwork Date ca. 1845

Makers Charles Meigh (Designer) English Meigh Pottery (Manufacturer) English, 1805-1902

Medium Stoneware, smear glazed

Dimensions Overall: 10 7/8 × 8 1/4 × 5 1/4 inches (27.6 × 21 × 13.3 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. George Walterhouse

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 04.6

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in paint, under foot: Bequest of Mrs. George Walterhouse

Marks Marked, pressed into surface, under foot: 32 9 [or 6]

Provenance

Barberita Armigo (Spain)

gifted to Isadora Armigo Chavez

1873, gifted to her sister Isadora Oberman and Maximo Aragon

by descent to their daughter, Juanita Aragon Donaghue

gifted to Cecilia Walterhouse

1904, left to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1986-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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