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| DOULTON & WATTS BOAR HUNTING JUG c.1840 |
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A well known form that has always puzzled me, produced by Doulton & Watts circa 1840 it displays on one side A Boar Hunt with dogs the other a Stag Hunt .
Now Wild Boar hunting really finished in England in the 17th Century so why illustrate it on a jug. It must have been popular as the same jug was produced by another London maker ( I have seen unmarked examples that would appear to be by a different potter) as well as the Masons factory in Staffordshire, in c.1845 and later c.1900. I still ask why the 1840's was a time of enlightenment not a time of looking back.
Lit. Oswald, Hildyard & Hughs 1982 pl.43.
Browne muggs Robin MUGGS 1985 139, ect. |
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