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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware, decorated with a drinking scene entitled ‘MIDNIGHT CONVERSATION’ after Hogarth, the arms of the Bertie, Hale, Leveson-Gower and Vane, various animals and birds
Greyish-white stoneware, slip cast with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. Cylindrical with an applied broad strap handle with a kick at the lower end. The body has a projecting band about 2 cm from the bottom, below which is a border of acorns and foliage. The area above is divided into three main panels. The central panel contains a crude representation of a punch-drinking scene after the print, 'A Midnight Modern Conversation, by William Hogarth. This is flanked by panels containing shields within wreaths, bearing the arms of Bertie, Hales, Leveson-Gower and Fane or Vane, with below eagles and other birds, antelopes, a monkey, crocodiles and fishes. On the back of the handle there are vines and a bird.
History note: Reynolds Collection; T. Russel Kent Esq, deceased, late of Suffolk Place, Pall Mall S.W; sold Sotheby, 29 January 1909, part of lot 15; sold to Mr Stoner on behalf of Dr Glaisher for 31 guineas; bought from him for £37.11s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 15.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1755
CE
The arms are of families whose members were involved in politics and governments of the 1740s and 1750s. Granville Leveson-Gower (1721-1803) was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1755. Another mug with these coats-of-arms has on the front a bust of George II and an integrally moulded inscription 'GOD SAVE THE/KING AND MY MASTER'.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Diameter 10.2 cm
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.589-1928
Primary reference Number: 75590
Old object number: 3038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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