Hunting Mug: C.1196-1928

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Hunting Mug

Maker(s)

Pottery: Vauxhall Pottery

Entities

Categories

Stoneware

Description

Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip, and applied reliefs of two men carrying a barrel, trees and rosettes, and a hunt with a huntsman on foot, hounds,and a deer. Inscribed round the top 'John Martin in Westminster' and dated 1726 on either side of the men carrying the barrel

Notes

History note: Sotheby's, 19 May 1927, lot 20

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 24.1 cm

Place(s) associated

London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J.W.L.

Dating

18th Century, second quarter#
George I
Production date: dated AD 1726

School or Style

Vauxhall (Type A)

Components of the work

Upper Part composed of slip ( ferruginous dip)
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Body
Inscription
Reliefs

Materials used in production

Inscription or legends present

Text: John Martin Westminster
Type: Inscription

Text: 1726 1726
Location: On either side of front panel
Method of creation: Incised
Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge page(s): 155
Dated London Brown Saltglazed Hunting Mugs 1713-75 page(s): 253-74

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1196-1928
Primary reference Number: 138426
Old object number: 4957
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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