Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ridgway & Abington
Title:
Nineveh.
Published / Created:
Hanley, England, 1851.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded gray-green stoneware, glazed ; height 22 cm (including handle), width 18 cm (including handle), depth 13 cm
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Title and attribution to Ridgway & Abington from Hughes.

The bottom is impressed with a diamond registration mark dated August 1851, parcel 2. Also impressed with a heart.

Hughes, K. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, 104

Henrywood, R.K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 72-74

The jug depicts two lamassu: a winged bull with human head on one side; a winged lion with human head on the other. With a handle in the form of twined snakes, and Assyrian letters beneath the spout. The designs are copied from Austen Henry Layard's A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh (1851).
Subject Terms:
Nineveh (Extinct city) -- Antiquities. | Gods, Assyro-Babylonian. | Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. | Relief (Sculpture), Assyro-Babylonian. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)
Contributors:
Layard, Austen Henry, 1817–1894. Popular account of discoveries at Nineveh.