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Jug: C.1714-1928

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Pottery: Wincanton Pottery

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Description

Earthenware with applied reliefs tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple and inscribed and dated 'Nathaniel Ireson 1748' and 'SB'

Buff earthenware, thrown, with five applied moulded reliefs, tin-glazed, and painted in dark blue and manganese-purple. Pear-shaped with wide neck, small projecting lip, and reeded loop handle. On the neck an applied relief of King David playing a harp is repeated five times. In the intervals are painted, on one side of the neck, a boy, and on the other side, a spray of flowers. The shoulder below one of the reliefs at the front has a painted inscription, 'Nathaniel:/ Ireson/ 1748', the date enclosed in a rectangle. On the body there are various figures, including tritons, two fiddlers, and a piper; a cavalry charge; a large figure of a mounted solider; a gentleman escorting a lady, whose train is carried by two boys; grotesque Chinese figures; flying birds and ducks, and, to left of centre on the front, a jug, and a wine glass.The initials 'SB' are painted to right of centre front behind the lady and train-bearers The back of the handle is decorated with vertical lines of wave scrolls and a wavy line between vertical lines.

Notes

History note: Nathaniel Ireson Bewsey, Temple Combe; inherited by his aunt; her posthumous sale, where bought by a Mrs Palmer, dealer of Walcot, Bath; Mallet, dealer in Bath; H. Blake, a dealer in Wincanton; Captain Herbert Terry of Ripley Surrey and later Great Duryard, Exeter; Terry sale at Eastbourne where he owned a bungalow; Mr (Thomas? ) Sutton, dealer, Eastbourne; 1912 Mr Miller, dealer, of Wincanton and later Bournemouth; offered for sale by Miller at Puttick & Simpson, London on 2 July 1914, English porcelain and pottery, objects of art, miniatures, embroideries . . ., lot 123; unsold; April 1916, bought by Mrs W.D. Dickson for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher who paid Colonel Dickson £125 for it.

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 36.8 cm
Height: 14½ in

Place(s) associated

  • Wincanton ⪼ Somerset ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date: dated AD 1748

Note

This unique jug is very unusual in having applied moulded reliefs of King David round its neck.

School or Style

Rococo

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of manganese cobalt-blue
Body

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Nathaniel:Ireson/1748
  • Location: On shoulder
  • Method of creation: Painted in blue
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: SB
  • Location: On side
  • Method of creation: Painted in blue
  • Type: Initial

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1714-1928
Primary reference Number: 72494
Old object number: 4066
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 Last processed: Friday 16 February 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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