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Hunting Mug
Pottery: Vauxhall Pottery (Probably)
Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip and applied reliefs of a hare hunt, half-figures of George II and Queen Caroline with GR and CR in a medal¬lion, beefeaters, trees. Inscribed, ‘Mary Culliford 1729’, and ‘Lett us Drink whilst we have Breath for there is no Drinking after Death’
History note: Sotheby's, 1 May 1925, lot 75, purchased by Hant/Hunt for £15 for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1729
This is one of about fifty-seven recorded hunting mugs attributed to the Vauxhall Pottery, near London, and dated between 1713 and 1744. The inscription round the top is from the first verse of John Dyer's song 'Down among the Dead Men' which begins 'Here's a health to the Queen' or 'to the King', depending upon when it was sung.
Upper Part
composed of
slip
( ferruginous dip)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Inscriptions
Reliefs
Accession number: C.1197-1928
Primary reference Number: 71526
Old object number: 4533
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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