Jug
1874 (made)
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Object Type
This is a supremely functional, single-handled mug in strong, salt-glazed stoneware. It was made in Lambeth, London, in the 1870s when plain stoneware, mocha and banded ware mugs were commonly used in public houses. Mugs as decorated as this one (without the obligatory capacity excise mark) were used either for the consumption of bottled beer at home or for lemonade. They were often accompanied by matching beakers and their elaboration may have been intended to entice a female market.
Ownership & Use
While the major part of their commercial production was of plain utilitarian wares, Doulton & Co. also made a smaller more specialised range of useful but artistic wares serving a wealthy, predominantly London clientele. For these clients, beer-drinking had attractive connotations with a mythical 'merrye England', without the adverse status as a purely working man's drink which it later acquired.
People
George Tinworth studied at the Lambeth School of Art under John Sparkes and at the Royal Academy. In 1866, he was among the first students employed by Henry Doulton to work for Doulton's Lambeth factory. Over a long career he made panels, (often religious in inspiration), figures and, as here, applied and incised decoration on a wide range of Doulton's art wares.
This is a supremely functional, single-handled mug in strong, salt-glazed stoneware. It was made in Lambeth, London, in the 1870s when plain stoneware, mocha and banded ware mugs were commonly used in public houses. Mugs as decorated as this one (without the obligatory capacity excise mark) were used either for the consumption of bottled beer at home or for lemonade. They were often accompanied by matching beakers and their elaboration may have been intended to entice a female market.
Ownership & Use
While the major part of their commercial production was of plain utilitarian wares, Doulton & Co. also made a smaller more specialised range of useful but artistic wares serving a wealthy, predominantly London clientele. For these clients, beer-drinking had attractive connotations with a mythical 'merrye England', without the adverse status as a purely working man's drink which it later acquired.
People
George Tinworth studied at the Lambeth School of Art under John Sparkes and at the Royal Academy. In 1866, he was among the first students employed by Henry Doulton to work for Doulton's Lambeth factory. Over a long career he made panels, (often religious in inspiration), figures and, as here, applied and incised decoration on a wide range of Doulton's art wares.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware, with incised and applied decoration and painted |
| Brief description | Jug of buff salt-glazed stoneware with incised and applied decoration, decorated by George Tinworth, Doulton & Co. Art Pottery, Lambeth, 1874. |
| Physical description | Jug of buff salt-glazed stoneware with incised and applied decoration and painted in blue, grey and brown. The body contracts upwards from the wide spreading base. With a loop handle. Decorated with rosettes in blue and brown applied in high relief among grey leafy scrollwork with white beads along the middle on a brown ground. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Production | Doulton & Co. Art Pottery in Lambeth, London |
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| Summary | Object Type This is a supremely functional, single-handled mug in strong, salt-glazed stoneware. It was made in Lambeth, London, in the 1870s when plain stoneware, mocha and banded ware mugs were commonly used in public houses. Mugs as decorated as this one (without the obligatory capacity excise mark) were used either for the consumption of bottled beer at home or for lemonade. They were often accompanied by matching beakers and their elaboration may have been intended to entice a female market. Ownership & Use While the major part of their commercial production was of plain utilitarian wares, Doulton & Co. also made a smaller more specialised range of useful but artistic wares serving a wealthy, predominantly London clientele. For these clients, beer-drinking had attractive connotations with a mythical 'merrye England', without the adverse status as a purely working man's drink which it later acquired. People George Tinworth studied at the Lambeth School of Art under John Sparkes and at the Royal Academy. In 1866, he was among the first students employed by Henry Doulton to work for Doulton's Lambeth factory. Over a long career he made panels, (often religious in inspiration), figures and, as here, applied and incised decoration on a wide range of Doulton's art wares. |
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| Accession number | 3789-1901 |
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| Record created | June 28, 1999 |
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