Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Wincanton Pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware with applied reliefs tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple and inscribed and dated 'Nathaniel Ireson 1748' and 'SB'
Buff earthenware, thrown, with five applied moulded reliefs, tin-glazed, and painted in dark blue and manganese-purple. Pear-shaped with wide neck, small projecting lip, and reeded loop handle. On the neck an applied relief of King David playing a harp is repeated five times. In the intervals are painted, on one side of the neck, a boy, and on the other side, a spray of flowers. The shoulder below one of the reliefs at the front has a painted inscription, 'Nathaniel:/ Ireson/ 1748', the date enclosed in a rectangle. On the body there are various figures, including tritons, two fiddlers, and a piper; a cavalry charge; a large figure of a mounted solider; a gentleman escorting a lady, whose train is carried by two boys; grotesque Chinese figures; flying birds and ducks, and, to left of centre on the front, a jug, and a wine glass.The initials 'SB' are painted to right of centre front behind the lady and train-bearers The back of the handle is decorated with vertical lines of wave scrolls and a wavy line between vertical lines.
Notes
History note: Nathaniel Ireson Bewsey, Temple Combe; inherited by his aunt; her posthumous sale, where bought by a Mrs Palmer, dealer of Walcot, Bath; Mallet, dealer in Bath; H. Blake, a dealer in Wincanton; Captain Herbert Terry of Ripley Surrey and later Great Duryard, Exeter; Terry sale at Eastbourne where he owned a bungalow; Mr (Thomas? ) Sutton, dealer, Eastbourne; 1912 Mr Miller, dealer, of Wincanton and later Bournemouth; offered for sale by Miller at Puttick & Simpson, London on 2 July 1914, English porcelain and pottery, objects of art, miniatures, embroideries . . ., lot 123; unsold; April 1916, bought by Mrs W.D. Dickson for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher who paid Colonel Dickson £125 for it.
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 36.8 cm
Height: 14½ in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1748
Note
This unique jug is very unusual in having applied moulded reliefs of King David round its neck.
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
manganese
cobalt-blue
Body
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: Nathaniel:Ireson/1748
- Location: On shoulder
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Inscription
- Text: SB
- Location: On side
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Initial
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1714-1928
Primary reference Number: 72494
Old object number: 4066
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
