Lot Essay
For another jug signed by Thomas Fields and dated 1735, see L. B. Grigsby, Engilsh Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1993, pp. 34-35.
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DATED 1757, SIGNED THOMAS FIELDS
Details
A NORTH DEVON SLIPWARE INSCRIBED AND DATED HARVEST JUG
DATED 1757, SIGNED THOMAS FIELDS
Incised with a compass rose centered by a three-masted ship at sea, flanked by mermaids, hippocampi, smiling fish, and birds, a heart below the scroll handle inscribed, "The larger monsters of the deep on the command attendance keep by thy commison sport and play and cleave along the foming way if god his choice of tempest rears Leviathan lyes still and fears / W M Langdon 1757"
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) tall
DATED 1757, SIGNED THOMAS FIELDS
Incised with a compass rose centered by a three-masted ship at sea, flanked by mermaids, hippocampi, smiling fish, and birds, a heart below the scroll handle inscribed, "The larger monsters of the deep on the command attendance keep by thy commison sport and play and cleave along the foming way if god his choice of tempest rears Leviathan lyes still and fears / W M Langdon 1757"
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) tall
Provenance
The family of William Langdon and by decent.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 10 June, 2003, lot 94.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 10 June, 2003, lot 94.
Brought to you by
Sallie Glover
For another jug signed by Thomas Fields and dated 1735, see L. B. Grigsby, Engilsh Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1993, pp. 34-35.