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Toddy Jug | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Toddy Jug

Date: 1800–1820

Geography: Made in China

Culture: Chinese, for American market

Medium: Porcelain

Dimensions: H. 10 in. (25.4 cm)

Classification: Ceramics

Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934

Accession Number: 34.74a, b

Description

The initials ET in gold under the spout of this jug are those of Edward Tilghman (1750–1815), a prominent lawyer in Philadelphia. This Chinese export jug was given to Tilghman by his uncle, Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, who originally ordered four jugs similarly decorated with portrait busts of George Washington in grisaille. The portrait of Washington was faithfully copied by a Chinese artist from an engraving by David Edwin after Gilbert Stuart.

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