Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Ridgway & Abington

Title:

Bullrushes.

Alternate Title(s):

Bulrushes

Published / Created:

Hanley, England, ca. [1848?]

Physical Description:

1 jug : relief-molded white stoneware, glazed ; height 14 cm (including handle), width 13 cm (including handle), depth 10 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 64
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Without maker's mark. The identical design (in various sizes) was made by William Ridgway & Co. (1835) and Ridgway & Abington (1848), the latter described in Hughes (v. 1, no. 76).

Title from Hughes.

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).

Subject Terms:

Typha. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance.

Form/Genre:

Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works)

Contributors:

William Ridgway & Co.