Harvest jug: GL.C.71-1928

Maker(s)

Potter: Burch, Phillip (Probably)

Entities

• Harvest jug
• jug

Categories

• Lead-glazed earthenware
• Slipware

Description

Red earthenware, coated with white slip, and incised under lead glaze. The jug has a bulbous body, short neck pinched into a lip in front and a loop handle turned up in a coil at the lower end. On the front is a sun-face between sprays of roses and tulips with birds perched upon them, and, above, the inscription 'Humphrey Whitefield 1788 Philip Burch Maker 1788'. Below, the words 'Now I'm come for to supply Good Harvestmen when they are Dry BARUM 1788'. Below, the handle, two faces in medallions and two peacocks with a smaller bird in a rectangular panel.

Notes

History note: Bought at Bridgewater; by Theodore Charbonnier, Lynton, Devon; purchased from him in 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Production date: AD 1788 : dated

Note

Barum was a contraction of the Roman name Barnastapolitum. So it seems likely that this jug was made in Barnstaple. A Phillip Burch was christened at Barnstaple on 27 February 1763. He could have been the man whose name is on the jug, and perhaps the man of the same name who was married there on 29 May 1789.