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Fair Hebe Jug
Factory:
Richard Meir Astbury's Factory
Proprietor:
Astbury, Richard Meir
Modeller:
Voyez, John
Cream earthenware, slip-cast and decorated with slightly blue-tinted clear, and blue, green, yellow, grey and black lead glazes
History note: John Bowden, Wardour Street, London, from whom purchased for £6 on 3 March 1899 by Dr J.W.L. Glaishe, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1788
CE
-
1790
CE
Fair Hebe jugs were made in moulds taken from a model 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 origin is 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 RMA for the potter, Richard Meir Astbury of Fenton Others are known with the initials RG for Robert Garner, for example C.748-1928. 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.
Decoration
cream
Earthenware
slightly blue-tinted clear, and blue, green, yellow, grey and black
Lead-glaze
Slip-casting
: Cream earthenware, slip-cast and decorated with slightly blue-tinted clear, and blue, green, yellow, grey and black glazes
Lead-glaze
Inscription present: impressed twice separately
Inscription present: very faintly
Inscription present: very faintly and not clear if I or J as first initial
Accession number: C.747-1928
Primary reference Number: 75966
Old object number: 960
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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