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Production: Hoyle, John Phillips
Red earthenware, coated with white slip with incised and cut away decoration under pale yellow lead glaze. the jug has a bulbous body, with a short neck, pinched into a lip in front, and a loop handle rolled up into a coil at the lower end. On the front is a ship in full sail with the name and date 'Sarah Newman 1860' and a Union Jack above, and 'John Hoyle Bideford 1860' between two anchors below. At the back is a mariner's compass, sun, moon, and stars and large conventional flowering tree with birds amongst branches.
History note: Theodore Charbonnier Collection, Lynton, Devon; purchased in 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 31.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Mid
Victoria I
Production date:
dated
AD 1860
: dated
Surface
composed of
slip
( white)
Decoration
Accession number: Gl.C.75-1928
Primary reference Number: 77105
Old object number: 2
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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