2014.13: Electioneering Jug

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2014.13

People

Manufactured by Kidderminster Pottery
Workshop of Robert Chamberlain (1736 - 1798)
Workshop of Thomas Flight (1726 - 1800)

Title

Electioneering Jug

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

c. 1789

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Worcester

Culture

English

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/350478

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Creamware with enamel decoration

Dimensions

47 x 39.5 x 51 cm (18 1/2 x 15 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: In lavender roundel with berried laurel leaves and tied ribbon suspension: LIBERTY, HALL, ALL, FRIENDS TO FREEDOM
• inscription: In a lavender roundel with berried laurel leaves and tied ribbon suspension: ALL FAST, FRIENDS
• inscription: Above the foot: WIGLEY AND THE INDEPENDENT CITIZENS OF WORCESTER
• inscription: On the handle: REIN DEER WORCESTER
• inscription: Below spout and below circular cartouche threaded with laurel sprays, color portrait of King George III: LONG LIVE THE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edmund Wigley, Shakenhurst (1795), by descent to his wife Anna Maria Watkins Meysey Severne, (1821), by descent; to Charles Meysey Meysey Wigley, Anna Maria, Caroline, and Mary Charlotte (1), (1825) by inheritance; to Mary Charlotte and Charles Wickstead, (1845) by inheritance; to Charles Wigley Wickstead (1878), by inheritance; to his wife, Mrs. Wickstead, bequest; to her godson Hugh Gurney, 1906, by descent; to his wife, Sybil Gurney, by bequest; to Michael Meysey Wigley Severne and Rachel Fitzgerald, 1961, by inheritance; to Amanda Caroline Severne, Shakenhurst, 2007, by inheritance; to Rowland and Phoebe Stirling, 2008, sold; [through Christie’s, London, March 20, 2011, Sale 55, Lot 146]. [Robert Hunter British and American Porcelain and Pottery, Yorktown, VA], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014.

Notes:
1. According to a transcript of “A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4,” 1924, the estate passed to Anna Maria’s younger children, Charles Meysey Meysey Wigley, Anna Maria, Caroline, and Mary Charlotte. When Charles died, the three sisters then had ownership of it.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III

Accession Year

2014

Object Number

2014.13

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Interiors: Including the Sunday Sale, auct. cat., Christie's, South Kensington (London, 20 & 22 March, 2011), p. 26, lot no. 146, repr. p. 26 and cover.

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