拍品 124
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN H. & R. DANIEL BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM JUG, one side painted with a view of Teddesley Hall, the reverse with a gentleman dressed in a coachman's uniform in conversation with a peasant woman tossing hay in a landscape, within shaped rectangular gilt band cartouches reserved on a dark-blue ground richly gilt with stylised foliage and anthemion, the leaf-moulded spout and terminal to the handle reserved and enriched in gilding and the rims gilt, circa 1835

细节
AN H. & R. DANIEL BLUE-GROUND OVIFORM JUG, one side painted with a view of Teddesley Hall, the reverse with a gentleman dressed in a coachman's uniform in conversation with a peasant woman tossing hay in a landscape, within shaped rectangular gilt band cartouches reserved on a dark-blue ground richly gilt with stylised foliage and anthemion, the leaf-moulded spout and terminal to the handle reserved and enriched in gilding and the rims gilt, circa 1835
23cm. high
来源
Edward Littleton, created first Lord Hatherton in 1835, and thence by descent

拍品专文

Edward John Walhouse of Hatherton, co. Stafford, inherited Teddesley Hall, Staffordshire, on the death in 1812 of his great-uncle Sir Edward Littleton, 4th Bt., assuming the surname and arms of Littleton. In 1812 Edward Littleton married Hyacinthe Mary Wellesley, the natural daughter of Richard, Marquess Wellesley and niece of the Duke of Wellington. He became M.P. for Staffordshire in the same year, entering Earl Grey's cabinet as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1833. On his honourable resignation in 1835 following a cabinet leak, he was created Baron Hatherton and it would seem therefore most likely that this jug was specially commissioned to celebrate his ennoblement

Teddesley Hall, built for Sir Edward Littleton by William Baker in 1757 was demolished in 1954, see 'Destruction of the Country House', Exhibition Catalogue, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1974, pl. 80

According to family tradition King George III (known as Farmer George) visited Teddesley Hall and, whilst the party in his honour was in progress, he donned his coachman's uniform in order to see for himself the state of the local agriculture. Meeting the woman tossing hay he said "why are you not up at the house celebrating the King's visit?", to which she replied "we can't wait for Kings whilst the weather is good and the harvest must be taken in". The King apparently took off his coat and helped her