Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Mason's Ironstone

Title:

Boar and stag hunt.

Published / Created:

Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England, 1845.

Physical Description:

1 jug : tan relief-molded stoneware ; 24 cm high (including handle) x 15 cm in diameter (22 cm including handle)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 76
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

"... this design was copied by Doulton & Watts in brown salt-glazed stoneware (190), and later examples were also produced by Doulton after his partnership with Watts had ended."--See Henrywood (page 170)

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. 55

Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, no. 196

This jug depicts a scene of two dogs attacking a stag on one side and three dogs fighting a wild boar on the other. The handle is in the shape of a branch with branches and acorns decorating the neck of the jug.

Subject Terms:

Deer hunting. | Hunting. | Hunting dogs. | Wild boar hunting. | Parks, Stephen -- Ownership.

Form/Genre:

Jugs (vessels) | Stoneware (pottery) | Ceramic (material) | Molding (forming)