Fair Hebe Jug
Factory:
Robert Garner's Factory
Proprietor:
Garner, Robert (1)
(Probably)
Proprietor:
Garner, Robert (2)
(Possibly)
Modeller:
Voyez, John
Earthenware, slip-cast, and decorated with clear and coloured lead-glazes
History note: Purchased in London in 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
18th Century, Late
George III
1788
CE
-
1790
CE
Fair Hebe jugs were made from moulds taken from a model dated 1788 by John Voyez (1735-1800). Hebe was the subject of a song adapted from Part I of A Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts (1743), by William Shenstone (1714-1763). This source for the design of the jug s supported by a teapot modelled by Voyez, decorated with a portrait medallion of Shenstone on one side, and Fair Hebe and her lover on the other. This jug bears the impressed initials RG for the potter, Robert Garner of Fenton. Others are known with the initials RMA for Richard Meir Astbury, for example C.747-1928. An unusual, and probably unique caneware jug, with the impressed mark 'Sir/W.W.W./Bart' on its base was made at a short-lived pottery at Wynnstay, on Sir Williams Watkins Wynne's estate, which was set up with the aid of Voyez shortly before Wynne died in 1789. There are also much smaller examples, painted in enamels, such as C. 769-1928.
Decoration composed of lead-glaze ( clear slightly tinted blue, blue, green, and manganese-purple)
cream Earthenware
Accession number: C.748-1928
Primary reference Number: 190304
Old object number: 2019
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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