A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE STONEWARE 'SCRATCH-BLUE' JACOBITE LOVING-CUP

CIRCA 1745-55

Details

A STAFFORDSHIRE SALTGLAZE STONEWARE 'SCRATCH-BLUE' JACOBITE LOVING-CUP
CIRCA 1745-55
Of flared form applied with reeded scroll handles, incised God Blefs Prince/Charles within flourishes and S-scrolls, the reverse incised with a tartan-clad figure standing wielding a sword and shield below scrolls and flanked by leafy branches, the lower body incised with stylised leaves and crossed branches (minor stained scratching to interior)
6.5/8 in. (16.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Charles F. C. Luxmoore.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 March 1959, lot 5.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court, collection no. 830 (according to applied paper label)
Rous Lench Court sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 94. With Jonathan Horne, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 November 2006, lot 41.

Literature

Charles F.C. Luxmoore, English Saltglazed Earthenware, London, 1971 (a reprint of the first edition published in 1924), pl. 27.
Robin Hildyard, 'Jacobite Ceramics', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 20, Part 3, 2009, p. 587, nos. 44 and 45.

Exhibited

Stoke-on-Trent Museums, 22 October 1915, according to dated paper label inscribed in ink 'Property of Caps Luxmoore.'

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Lot Essay

This Jacobite loving-cup depicts Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), known as the 'Young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. He is best remembered as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745 in which he attempted to restore the Stuarts to the throne of the United Kingdom. Defeat at the Battle of Culloden effectively ended the Jacobite cause. The majority of commemorative pottery and also that made in support of the Jacobite cause was produced in English delftware and creamware and depictions of Bonnie Prince Charlie on saltglaze stoneware are very unusual. A similar loving-cup is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, see Robin Hildyard ibid., p. 586, no. 43 and a saltglaze stoneware 'scratch-blue' mug incised with two similar tartan-clad figures is illustrated by Diana Edwards and R. Hampson, White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles, Woodbridge, 2005, p. 34, col. pl. 20.

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