Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Alcock & Co
Title:
Cain and Abel.
Published / Created:
Cobridge, England, ca. 1850.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded white and blue parian ; height 22 cm (including handle), width 13 cm (including handle), depth 12 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The bottom bears the printed mark of Samuel Alcock & Co., with the number '247'.

Without a metal lid.

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

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 89

One side of the jug depicts Cain's murder of his brother Abel; the other Abel's parents grieving over his body.
Subject Terms:
Cain (Biblical figure) | Abel (Biblical figure) | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Parian (porcelain, material) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming)