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Jug (Pitcher)
1847
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Possibly Ireland; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (dipped ware)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2007.0028.001
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Barbara P. Katz
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Object Number
2007.0028.001
Object Name
Jug (Pitcher)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Possibly Ireland; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1847
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, circular paper label with "126/ K238" in blue and green ink
Type: Inscription
Location: Circling body on two grooved bands
Inscription: Handpainted in blue script "D.O'Connell MP. [pouring lip] Born Augst- 6th- 1775/ He died May 15th- 1847 at "Genoa" " in blue paint
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Historical
- Political figure
- Frederick Douglass
- Slavery
- Abolition
- Anti-slavery
Materials
- Earthenware (dipped ware)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Painted
- Molded
- Rouletted
- Slip decorated
Dimensions (inches)
9.409 (H) x 11.752 (L) x 8.11 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
23.9 (H) x 29.85 (L) x 20.6 (Diam)
Measurement Notes
Length measurement is from spout to handle
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Grigsby, Leslie B. 01//2009 Mocha and Dipped. mispelled Dripped: Wares: Combining Fashion and Fancy. Antiques and Fine Art. 286-87.
• Published: p. 287, fig. 6Web Site: Murray, Hannah-Rose & Fenton, Lawrence. Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell (book review). Reviews in History 2019 https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1781
• Book review of "Frederick Douglass in Ireland: The Black O’Connell" (Laurence Fenton, Collins Press, Cork, Ireland 2014): Discusses Frederick Douglass's visit to O'connell in Ireland and Douglass sometimes being known as "The Black O'Connell."Catalogue: 2007 Christie's (sales catalogue).
• Somewhat similarly ornamented jugs: 1/20-1/21/2005 (NY) sale, lot 223, two yellow-ground jugs of similar form with blue floral banding, 20th C. Weaker ornament. Mandelstam coll.Book: Pugh, P. D. Gordon. 1987 Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Era.
• Staffordshire earthenware figures of O'Connell: pp. 14, 16, 24, 46, 88, 180, 183-4, 186, 197, 205.Book: Volk, Joyce Geary. 2006 The Warner House: A Rich and Colorful History.
• Jug of similar form and materials with many decorative similarities, excavated at Warner House, Portsmouth NH: p. 83, fig. 7.11, with mocha-type tulip on darker slip central band.Catalogue: Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth NH (auction catalogue).
• Jug of similar form, smaller, with foliate & floral blue and back "mocha" ornament in central band: October 25, 2009, lot 210.Article: Tolson, Hawk, et al. 2008 "Ceramics from the 'Blue China' Wreck". Ceramics in America.
• Yellow ware chamberpot with white central band bearing blue mocha floral motifs somewhat like on Winterthur jug: p. 180, fig. 39, c. 1850-60. Ship found 70 mi. SE of Jacksonville FL.