Harvest jug
This earthenware harvest jug is covered with lively imaginary maritime hybrid sea monsters and a compass with a ship in the centre. The decoration has been made by sgraffito = scratching the pattern through a layer of thin clay called slip.
An inscription reads: Come fill me / full and Drinke / a bout and Never / Leave till all is out / and if that will not / make you merry / fill me again
/ and sing y Down Derry / 1766
It is dated 1766 and has been likened to the work of Thomas Fields.
An inscription reads: Come fill me / full and Drinke / a bout and Never / Leave till all is out / and if that will not / make you merry / fill me again
/ and sing y Down Derry / 1766
It is dated 1766 and has been likened to the work of Thomas Fields.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 64/1929
- Collection Class
- British ceramics
- Material
- earthenware | | | |
- Common Name
- harvest jug
- Simple Name
- jug
- Inscription Transcription
- Come fill me / full and Drinke / a bout and Never / Leave till all is out / and if that will not / make you merry / fill me again / and sing y Down Derry / 1766
- Period Classification
- George III (1760-1811)
- Production Town
- Bideford
- Production County
- N. Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1766
- Production Person Initials
- Thomas (?)
- Production Person Surname
- Fields (?)
- Production Year Low
- 1765
- Production Year High
- 1766
