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Pottery:
Lucas's Pottery
Potter:
Lucas, Mary
Red earthenware, the front smeared with white clay with incised and impressed decoration under yellow lead glaze flecked with dark brown. Pear-shaped body with reeding round the middle. Wide neck pinched into a lip in front, and a loop handle with longitudianal ridge, and three thumb impressions at the base. Incised on the front is the name and date 'Henry Paton (?) Ely July (?) 18 1836'. Impressed, to the right, is the mark 'M LUCAS ELY'.
History note: Mr Wordingham, Ely, from whom purchased on 18 December 1925, for £1 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 28.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century
William IV
Production date:
AD 1836
: dated
The Lucas family's pottery operated in Ely between 1783 and about 1839. Richard Lucas I (1853-1812) ran the potter from 1783 until his death. His son John Race Lucas took over and ran the pottery until his death in 1821. His mother Mary, then took over and is listed in local directories of 1823-39 as working in the Annesdale area of Ely. She died in 1839.
The name on the jug is indistinct and was read by Dr Glaisher as Henry Parsons, and by Rackham (1935), as Paton. There was a local boatwright named Henry Parsons, whose wife, Mary, was recorded as in conflict with Mary Lucas's competitor, Robert Sibley. In 1840 Mary Parsons was charged with trespassing in Sibley's garden and damaging his potatoes.
Body
Decoration
Inscription present: indistinct name
Accession number: GL.C.46-1928
Primary reference Number: 77070
Old object number: 4880
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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