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"Martha Gunn" Toby Jug
Made at: Staffordshire (England)
English (Staffordshire)
about 1770
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Pearlware, colored enamels
Dimensions
Height x width: 29.2 × 12.7 × 14 cm (11 1/2 × 5 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Abby Rockefeller Mauze
Accession Number1977.323a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionFemale figure seated with a flask in her right hand and a glass in her left. Wears a yellow dress, brown shawl, and a yellow tricorn hat with a removable top/stopper over a mob cap. Green C-shaped handle at back.
InscriptionsDealer's printed label of D. M. & P. Manheim on underside of base, and on side of stopper.
A large paper label attached to underside of base, inscribed: "231-Staff. Toby Jug c. 1770 / of Martha Gunn, a Brighton / Bathing Woman who it is said / Dipped George IV when a child, / in the sea. / D. M. P. Manheim-London-Sept. 1958"
A large paper label attached to underside of base, inscribed: "231-Staff. Toby Jug c. 1770 / of Martha Gunn, a Brighton / Bathing Woman who it is said / Dipped George IV when a child, / in the sea. / D. M. P. Manheim-London-Sept. 1958"
ProvenanceSeptember 1958, sold by D. M. & P. Manheim, London (dealer), to Abby Rockefeller Mauze, New York.