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Jug

CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1760
MediumStoneware with salt glaze
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 inches (16.51 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frank P. Burnap
Object number54-40
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 112
DescriptionPear-shaped with pinched lip spout and reeded handle. Within shell-bordered panel beneath, bust portrait of Prince Charles Edward wearing ribbon of the star and garter. On one side, spray of wild roses; on other, Jacobite emblem of a white rose and single bud thistle. Under rim of jug, trellis and scroll border in green, red, and mauve enamels.Gallery Label
James II (1633-1701), the last Stuart king to rule both England and Scotland, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in 1688. Those who wanted to restore the Stuart line to the throne adopted the name "Jacobites" from Jacobus, the Latin form of the name James. Jacobite loyalties, which were considered treasonous, are displayed on this jug and teapot's decorations: portraits of James II's grandson, Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charles, 1720-88), tartan plaid kilts and the Jacobite emblem of a white rose and a thistle.
Provenance

Mrs. Jane Brooke (née Skelton, b. ca. 1857) Childerley Hall, Cambridge, England;

Her sale, The Brooke Collection of Early English Pottery, Sotheby’s, London, June 13, 1929, lot 94;

Sold, Early English Pottery and Very Fine English Pottery, Sotheby & Co., London, May 1, 1951, lot 6;

Mr. Thomas Murrary Ragg (1897-1953), London, England;

Purchased at his posthumous sale, Fine English Pottery, The T. Murrary Ragg Collection, Sotheby & Co., London, March 23, 1954, lot 111, by Mr. Frank P. Burnap (1861-1957), Kansas City, MO;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.



Published References

Sotheby & Co., The Brooke Collection of Early English Pottery (London: Sotheby & Co., 1929) 14, frontispiece (repro.).

Sotheby & Co., Early English Pottery and Very Fine English Pottery, (London: Sotheby & Co.,  1951) 4, unpaginated (repro.). 

Sotheby & Co., Fine English Pottery, The T. Murrary Ragg Collection (London: Sotheby & Co., 1954) 28, unpaginated (repro.).


Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, rev. ed. (1953; Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1967), 80 (repro.).

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