A ROCKINGHAM DATED CLARET-GROUND CYLINDRICAL MUG, painted with a a horse with jockey up before a railing fence and winning-post in a landscape, within a rectangular gilt band cartouche heightened with stiff leaves and with flowerheads at the angles, the reverse inscribed in gilt First Year of WATH RACES, MDCCCXXXI., within a similar rectangular gilt band cartouche, reserved on a dark claret ground between gilt band rims, the loop handle richly gilt (minute chip to foot, slight scratching to enamels and gilding to handle slightly rubbed), puce griffin and script marks, 1831

A ROCKINGHAM DATED CLARET-GROUND CYLINDRICAL MUG, painted with a a horse with jockey up before a railing fence and winning-post in a landscape, within a rectangular gilt band cartouche heightened with stiff leaves and with flowerheads at the angles, the reverse inscribed in gilt First Year of WATH RACES, MDCCCXXXI., within a similar rectangular gilt band cartouche, reserved on a dark claret ground between gilt band rims, the loop handle richly gilt (minute chip to foot, slight scratching to enamels and gilding to handle slightly rubbed), puce griffin and script marks, 1831

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A ROCKINGHAM DATED CLARET-GROUND CYLINDRICAL MUG, painted with a a horse with jockey up before a railing fence and winning-post in a landscape, within a rectangular gilt band cartouche heightened with stiff leaves and with flowerheads at the angles, the reverse inscribed in gilt First Year of WATH RACES, MDCCCXXXI., within a similar rectangular gilt band cartouche, reserved on a dark claret ground between gilt band rims, the loop handle richly gilt (minute chip to foot, slight scratching to enamels and gilding to handle slightly rubbed), puce griffin and script marks, 1831
13cm. high

Provenance

Miss Rodgers of The Hawthorns, Wath-on-Dearne, and thence by descent

Literature

J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, Northern Turf History, Vol. II, p. 268

Lot Essay

Wath-on-Dearne, five miles from Rotherham, was ground upon which the Fitzwilliams who were great supporters of the long defunct meeting at Rotherham had some of their horses trained and the first Race Meeting was held on 10 and 11 October 1831.... A reference to the 1831 meeting was made in The Mexborough and Swinton Times on 19 August 1927 as follows : "The porcelain cup, ..... was the principal trophy in the only flat racing run at Swinton Common. The meeting, which was described as the 'First year of Wath Races', was held on Monday and Tuesday, 10th and 11th October, 1831, 'by permission of the Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam on His Lordship's Course at Wath-Wood'. The cup is described in a race card as 'A porcelain cup, value 4 guineas, ...... There were five runners, and the race, described as a good one 'and won cleverly', fell to Mr. Hunt who rode Charlie. Mr. Hunt handed the trophy to Mr. T. Rodgers, who ran second on Moritz, and it is now in the possession of Miss Rodgers, Mr. Rodger's grand-daughter. There was one other race on that day, the prize being a new saddle, 'value 3 guineas'......", see J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, Northern Turf History, Vol. II, pp. 268-9

We are grateful to Dr. Alice Hills of the National Horseracing Museum, Newmarket, for kindly providing this information

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