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Titles
Fair Hebe Jug
Maker(s)
Factory:
Robert Garner's Factory
Proprietor:
Garner, Robert (1)
(Probably)
Proprietor:
Garner, Robert (2)
(Possibly)
Modeller:
Voyez, John
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware, slip-cast, and decorated with clear and coloured lead-glazes
Notes
History note: Purchased in London in 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 24.5 cm
Place(s) associated
-
Fenton
⪼ Staffordshire
⪼ English
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J.W.L.
Dating
18th Century, Late
George III
1788
CE
-
1790
CE
Note
Fair Hebe jugs were made from moulds taken from a model dated 1788 by John Voyez (1735-1800). Hebe was the subject of a song adapted from Part I of A Pastoral Ballad in Four Parts (1743), by William Shenstone (1714-1763). This source for the design of the jug s supported by a teapot modelled by Voyez, decorated with a portrait medallion of Shenstone on one side, and Fair Hebe and her lover on the other.
This jug bears the impressed initials RG for the potter, Robert Garner of Fenton. Others are known with the initials RMA for Richard Meir Astbury, for example C.747-1928. An unusual, and probably unique caneware jug, with the impressed mark 'Sir/W.W.W./Bart' on its base was made at a short-lived pottery at Wynnstay, on Sir Williams Watkins Wynne's estate, which was set up with the aid of Voyez shortly before Wynne died in 1789. There are also much smaller examples, painted in enamels, such as C. 769-1928.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( clear slightly tinted blue, blue, green, and manganese-purple)
Materials used in production
cream
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Slip-casting
Inscription or legends present
- Text: RG
- Location: On bottle
- Method of creation: Integrally moulded with body
- Type: Initials
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector
page(s): 174
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
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Jean Voyez
page(s): 24-5, and p. 32
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The Delhom Gallery Guide, English Pottery
page(s): 21
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The Enoch Wood Paper Archive: Part I. Some new information on Ralph Wood, Jean Voyez and Fidelle Duvivier and their roles in 18th century Burslem
page(s): 164-5
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.748-1928
Primary reference Number: 190304
Old object number: 2019
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Tuesday 6 November 2012
Updated: Sunday 25 June 2023
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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