Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
C.J. Mason & Co
Title:
Falstaff jug.
Published / Created:
Staffordshire, circa 1830.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded tan ironstone, glazed ; height 20 cm (including handle), width 19 cm (including handle), depth 13 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 50
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Without registration mark or maker's mark.

Without a lid.

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

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 11

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 170-171

The jug is densely decorated with figures, including a pot-bellied man with antlers on his head; the man may be Shakespeare's Falstaff (or perhaps the Celtic deity Cernunnos). Also depicted are two ladies, dogs, stags, castles and foliage.
Subject Terms:
Cernunnos (Celtic deity) | Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ironstone (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)