Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Monkey jug.
Published / Created:
England, circa 1840.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded tan stoneware ; height 18 cm (including handle), width 17 cm (including handle), depth 12 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 35
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
No maker's marks are present.

With a metal lid.

Title and date from Hughes's Collector's guide.

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 43a

The design depicts a band of monkeys smoking and drinking.
Subject Terms:
Monkeys. | Smoking. | Drinking of alcoholic beverages. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works) | Lids (covers)