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Pug
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White stoneware press-moulded body with applied tail, brown slip eyes, and salt-glaze.
White stoneware with brown slip details and salt-glaze. The press-moulded dog stands on a rectangular base with chamfered sides. Its head is turned to one side and titlted up and its long tail is tightly coiled into two loops. It wears a collar with a four-lobed flower at the back. The pupils of the eyes are put in with brown slip.
History note: Provenance unidentified before bought by a porter at Puttick and Simpson's, known as “Mack”, on behalf of a client; when his client refused to pay, Mack sold it for £8 with C.801-1928 on 8 October 1920 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest.
Height: 8.4 cm
Width: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
Circa
1755
CE
Pugs were a particularly popular breed of dog in the 18th-century. The breed’s popularity and its adoption as the symbol of the ‘Order of the Pug’, a secret society that developed in Europe after Pope Clement XII banned Freemasonry in 1738, inspired the Meissen factory in Dresden to produce hard-paste porcelain pugs. Eager to emulate the fashionable Meissen products and to capitalise on the popularity of the breed in England, many English potters produced their own pug models.
Eyes
composed of
slip
( brown)
Tail
Press-moulding
: Press-moulded white stoneware with an applied coil of clay for the tail and dots of brown slip for the pupils; covered in a salt-glaze
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.799-1928
Primary reference Number: 76073
Old catalogue number: 3792
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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