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Pottery: Lucas's Pottery
Red earthenware, with incised and inlaid decoration in white slip under pale yellow lead-glaze. Bulbous with flattened sides, small cylindrical neck and reeded loop handle. On one side is a rough, side profile of a head, and on the other, the initials and date 'J+L/1796 in a rounded panel with flat lower edge.
History note: George Jennings, artist, Walberswick, Suffolk, who bought it in 1881 at Bury St Edmunds; purchased by Messrs Jolley of Cambridge; purchased for £3 on 16 February 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1796
When acquired by Glaisher, the initials on the jug were mistakenly associated with a Jabez Lucas who with his wife, Mary, were thought to have run a pottery in Ely. No documentary evidence has been found for a Jabez Lucas. At the date when this jug was made there was a pottery in Ely which had been run by Richard Lucas since 1783. His wife Mary, had a son, John Race Lucas, who took over the pottery on his father's death in 1812 at the age of twenty-nine. So it seems that the initials were those of the person who commissioned the jug, and not those of the maker.
Decoration
Accession number: GL.C.45-1928
Primary reference Number: 77069
Old object number: 3397
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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