Artist: Hoyle, John Phillips; Date(s): 1860; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, harvest jug, slip-coated, earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under lead glaze; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928 [Gl.C.75-1928]
Description: Harvest jug. Earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under lead glaze. Bulbous body, with short neck, pinched into a lip in front, with a loop handle rolled up into a coil at the lower end. On the front is a ship in full sail with the name and date 'Sarah Newman 1860' and a Union Jack above, and 'John Hoyle Bideford 1860' between two anchors below. At the back is a mariner's compass, sun, moon, and stars and large conventional flowering tree with birds amongst branches.
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