Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ridgway & Abington
Title:
Bullrushes sugar bowl.
Alternate Title(s):
Bulrushes sugar bowl
Published / Created:
Hanley, England, 1848.
Physical Description:
1 sugar bowl : relief-molded tan stoneware, glazed ; height 13 cm (including lid), diameter 11 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 66
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Without maker's mark.

With diamond registration mark impressed on the bottom. Some of the marks are faint; the date of manufacture appears to be March 7, 1848.

Hughes, K. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, see v. 1, no. 76

Henrywood, R.K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, see pages 70-72

Covered with a naturalistic depiction of bulrush (or cattail, Typha). The molded ornament is the same as that in Ridgway & Abington's "Bullrushes" jug, 1848 (as described in Hughes), but here in the form of a sugar bowl.
Subject Terms:
Typha. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Sugar bowls. | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)
Contributors:
William Ridgway & Co.