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Hunting Mug: C.1197-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Titles

Hunting Mug

Maker(s)

Pottery: Vauxhall Pottery (Probably)

Entities

Categories

Description

Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip and applied reliefs of a hare hunt, half-figures of George II and Queen Caroline with GR and CR in a medal¬lion, beefeaters, trees. Inscribed, ‘Mary Culliford 1729’, and ‘Lett us Drink whilst we have Breath for there is no Drinking after Death’

Notes

History note: Sotheby's, 1 May 1925, lot 75, purchased by Hant/Hunt for £15 for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 20.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, second quarter
George II
Production date: dated AD 1729

Note

This is one of about fifty-seven recorded hunting mugs attributed to the Vauxhall Pottery, near London, and dated between 1713 and 1744. The inscription round the top is from the first verse of John Dyer's song 'Down among the Dead Men' which begins 'Here's a health to the Queen' or 'to the King', depending upon when it was sung.

School or Style

Vauxhall (Type A)

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Upper Part composed of slip ( ferruginous dip)
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Body
Inscriptions
Reliefs

Materials used in production

Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Salt-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Mary Culliford 1729
  • Location: On left side of body and on front
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Lett us Drink whilst we have Breath for there is no Drinking after Death’
  • Location: Below the rim
  • Method of creation: Incised
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1197-1928
Primary reference Number: 71526
Old object number: 4533

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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