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Pug on a Cushion
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware figure of a pug dog on cushion.
White stoneware press-moulded and salt-glazed. The pug lies on a tall cushion with its head turned to one side and looking down. The cushion is decorated with vertical braids in relief. Dots of brown slip mark the eyes of the dog.
History note: Provenance unidentified before Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, who sold it for £4 on 20 August 1919 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest.
Height: 4 cm
Width: 5 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 18th-century Europe, being a fashionable pet – the English painter William Hogarth (1697 1764) famously owned a pug called ‘Trump’ – and the symbol of the ‘Order of the Pug’, a secret society that developed after Pope Clement XII banned Freemasonry in 1738. Eager to capitalise on the popularity of the breed and to emulate the fashionable porcelain pugs produced by the Meissen factory in Dresden, many English potters produced their own pug models in salt-glazed stoneware and in other materials.
Eyes
composed of
slip
( brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: White stoneware press-moulded with brown slip applied to the eyes and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.800-1928
Primary reference Number: 76117
Old catalogue number: 4193
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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