Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Ridgway & Co
Title:
Tam O'Shanter.
Published / Created:
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1835.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded tan stoneware, glazed ; height 16 cm (including handle), width 13 cm (including handle), depth 11 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 41
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Impressed on bottom: "Published by W Ridgway & Co, Hanley, October 1, 1835." Also: '24' and an undeciphered character.

Title from Hughes's Collector's guide.

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 26

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 65-66

One side of the jug depicts Tam O'Shanter (from the Robert Burns poem) drinking with friends in a pub. The other side depicts Tam O'Shanter on a horse fleeing from a single witch. "The smaller size jugs have only one witch, the larger ones have two ..."--Hughes.
Subject Terms:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages. | Horses. | Witches. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)
Contributors:
Based on (work): Burns, Robert, (1759–1796). Tam O'Shanter.