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Hunting Mug: C.1199-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Hunting Mug

Maker(s)

Pottery: Norfolk House (Possibly)

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Description

Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip, and applied sprigs of a cottage, trees, a punch party derived from Hogarth’s ‘Midnight Modern Conversation’, and below, a fox hunt. Inscribed with the owner’s name, ‘James Osburn/1733’. Metal mount

Grey-buff stoneware, thrown, with applied moulded sprigs (reliefs), mottled brown dip on the upper part, incised inscription, and metal mount round the rim. Cylindrical with turned bands above the base, applied strap handle with longitudinal depressin and slight kick at the base. Decorated on the front with a relief of a punch party derived from Hogarth's 'Midnight Modern Conversation' with on each side, a tree, a building and a tree, and below an anti-clockwise fox hunt, beginning with a mounted huntsman to right of the handle, following six hounds and a fox. Inscribed with the owner’s name, ‘James Osburn/1733’.

Notes

History note: Mr Acton, Brighton, from whom purchased for £7 on 14 November, 1890 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 23 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, second quarter
George II
Production date: dated AD 1733

Note

Hogarth's 'Midnight Modern Conversation' was issued in 1733.

School or Style

London (Type B)

Components of the work

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

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Salt-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: James Osburn 1733
  • Location: Name to left of punch drinking scene and date below
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1199-1928
Primary reference Number: 71537
Old object number: 2167

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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