Sherry jug
Category
Ceramics
Date
1646
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
125 mm (Height); 295 mm (Circumference)
Place of origin
Lambeth
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Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347539.3
Caption
When George, 3rd Baron (later 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe) and his wife Emma hosted King George and Queen Charlotte’s visit to Cotehele in 1789, the queen particularly noted these bottles: “…The Decanters are of the year 1646 the name of the Wines burnt in the Earthenware for that Time Wines were sold at the Apothecaries Shop & in Sending such a Decanter it was filled with the Wine it bore the Label off...”
Summary
One of three English tin-glazed earthenware (delftware) wine bottles/jugs, with bulbous bodies and straight necks, inscribed 'WHIT 1646' in blue. John Eliot Hodgkin and Edith Hodgkin, 'Examples of Early English Pottery: Named, Dated, and Inscribed', London: 1891, cat. no. 253
Marks and inscriptions
WHIT 1646