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Jackfield ware inscribed jug
Dark earthenware jug with manganese iron glaze.
Pear-shaped jug with projecting lip and loop handle, glazed inside and out in black and decorated on the front in gold, heightened with red enamel, with rococo scrolls around the inscription:
‘may the Tennant be Ready when the Steward comes.’
History note: Rev. R. W. Sibthorp of East Circus St., Nottingham until 1879. Then John Eliot Hodgkin, author of Examples of Early English Pottery, and afterwards Col. and Mrs Pryser until sold at Sotheby’s on 5 November 1919, lot 30. Bought at Sotheby’s for £9 5s (nine pounds five shillings) by Stanley Woolston, for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928
Height: 17.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration composed of enamel ( red) gold
dark Earthenware
Throwing : Thrown earthenware jug with manganese iron glaze.
Accession number: C.1104-1928
Primary reference Number: 71323
Old object number: 4201
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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