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Hunting Mug
Pottery: Norfolk House (Possibly)
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’.
History note: Mr Acton, Brighton, from whom purchased for £7 on 14 November, 1890 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1733
Hogarth's 'Midnight Modern Conversation' was issued in 1733.
Upper Part
composed of
slip
( brown dip)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Inscription
Reliefs
Rim
Accession number: C.1199-1928
Primary reference Number: 71537
Old object number: 2167
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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