Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
T. & R. Boote
Title:
Infant Samuel.
Published / Created:
Burselm, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1848.
Physical Description:
1 jug : white relief-molded stoneware ; 24 cm high x 13 cm in diameter (14 cm including handle)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 74
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
The bottom with printed marks: the royal arms above a scroll with "T. & R. BOOTE"; with diamond registration mark for 17 October 1848, parcel 3.

Title from Hughes's Collector's guide.

Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 79

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 184-186

The jug is decorated on both sides with a scene based on a painting by John Singleton Copley, Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House, 1780. Beneath the spout on the front of the jug is a single figure with turban and breastplate carrying a smoking incense burner.
Subject Terms:
Samuel (Biblical judge) | Eli (Biblical figure) | Parks, Stephen -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming)
Contributors:
Based on: Copley, John Singleton, 1738–1815. Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgements of God upon Eli's House.