Abolitionist Jug

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Abolitionist Jug

British, probably Stafforshire or Sunderland

Date
ca. 1820
Medium
Pearlware (glazed earthenware) with transfer-printed and luster decoration
Dimensions
4 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 3 in. (11.4 × 14 × 7.6 cm)
Object type
Jug
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, probably Stafforshire or Sunderland
Object number
2020.106
Credit line
Purchase, Brett and Sara Burns Gift, in honor of Austin B. Chinn, 2020

Subjects and terms

  • Slavery

The Met object ID 841224. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.