Details
A good Victorian vase-shaped claret jug on a shell, floral and foliate-cast and chased rising shaped circular foot, the front cast and chased with a vignette of a family returning from a hawking expedition, the wife with child seated on a horse, her husband at her side, a child examining several hawks, dead game at her feet, the vignette surrounded by rococo flowers, scrolls and scale-work with two hawks above, the sides with two rococo cartouches, one engraved with a testimonial to Alexander White Esq., the other with later presentation inscription, with an elaborate cast and chased leaf-capped double scroll handle, applied scroll rim and domed hinged cover with hawk finial, in original plush and satin-lined leather case, Joseph and John Angell, London 1843 - 14¼in., 35oz.
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Further details
The vignette on the above piece is probably based on Sir Edwin Landseer's portrait of the Earl of Ellesmere and his family entitled Return from Hawking, painted by 1837. Landseer painted many hawking and hunting scenes, some based on the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott, one of the most popular authors of the Victorian age. His works inspired considerable interest in the world of historical romance and chivalry, and many young noblemen took up the sport of hawking in the first half of the 19th Century. We are indebted to "Sir Edwin Landseer," the catalogue of the exhibition at The Tate Gallery written by Richard Ormond for the above information.