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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Mug

1713 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Vauxhall (made)

Hunting mug of salt-glazed stoneware with a strap handle. Applied with moulded decoration of a hunting scene and hand-modelled trees in relief on the exterior.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Object type
Mug
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware with applied decoration
Stoneware
Glazed
Applied Work
Brief description
Hunting mug, salt-glazed stoneware, Vauxhall, London, 1713
Physical description
Hunting mug of salt-glazed stoneware with a strap handle. Applied with moulded decoration of a hunting scene and hand-modelled trees in relief on the exterior.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.2cm
  • Incl. handle length: 22.4cm
  • Width: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'John Rose fill this with strong bear and wee will Fuddle our nose. 1713'
Credit line
Purchased with the support of Sir Harry Djanogly CBE and with funds from the Hugh Phillips and Robert Stones Bequests
Object history
This giant mug was sold at Sotheby's on 23/10/1979, Lot 78. Hammer price, £520.
Production
See a hunting mug in the Willett Collection at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery dated 1721 for similar hand modelled oak trees (no. 018)
Subjects depicted
Trees
Hare Coursing
Hunting
Bibliographic references
  • Hildyard, Robin. Browne Muggs: English brown stoneware. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985
  • Oswald, Hildyard & Hughes. English brown stoneware, 1670-1900. London: Faber and Faber, 1982, pl. 14
  • Massey, Marno & Spero. Ceramics of Vauxhall: 18th century pottery and porcelain. London: The English Ceramic Circle, 2007
  • Brown, Peter B. Come drink the bowl dry: alcoholic liquors and their place in 18th century society,an exhibition at Fairfax House, York, 1996, p. 73, illustrated.
  • Beddoe, Stella, 'A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain', (Suffolk: ACC Art Books, 2015), p. 16.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.98-2013

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Record createdJuly 22, 2013
Record URL
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