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Title(s)
Tam O'Shanter.
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Published/Created
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1835.
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Physical Description
1 jug : relief-molded tan stoneware, glazed ; height 18 cm (including handle), width 15 cm (including handle), depth 12 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parks Jug 41a
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
Impressed on bottom: "Published by W Ridgway & Co, Hanley, October 1, 1835." Also: '2' (?) and '12'.
Title from Hughes's Collector's guide.
Hughes, Kathy. Collector's guide to nineteenth-century jugs, v. 1, no. 26
Henrywood, R. K. Relief-moulded jugs, 1820-1900, pages 65-66
One side of the jug depicts Tam O'Shanter (from the Robert Burns poem) drinking with friends in a pub. The other side depicts Tam O'Shanter on a horse fleeing from a single witch. "The smaller size jugs have only one witch, the larger ones have two ..."--Hughes. -
Subject Terms
Drinking of alcoholic beverages. | Horses. | Parks, Stephen -- Provenance. | Witches.
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Form/Genre
Ceramic (material) | Glazed ceramic ware (visual works) | Jugs (vessels) | Molding (forming) | Stoneware (pottery)
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