Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Minton (Company)
Title:
Foxes and hounds.
Published / Created:
Stoke, England, 1831.
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded gray-green stoneware, glazed ; height 28 cm (including handle), width 24 cm (including handle), depth 19 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 59
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The bottom is impressed 'No. 17' in the middle of the maker's mark for Minton. Also impressed '3'.

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. 64

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 84-85

A high relief design depicting a group of four dogs on one side and four foxes on the other, with a handle in the form of a fox.
Subject Terms:
Foxes. | Hounds. | Fox hunting. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming)