CIRCA 1762, RICHARD CHAFFER'S FACTORY

細節

A Liverpool slender baluster mug
Circa 1762, Richard Chaffer's factory
With strap handle and painted in a spray of pink moss rose with two half-opened buds and a spray of lily-of-the-valley, the reverse with a rosebud above a dove in flight with an olive branch in its beak
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high

來源

Bought from Winifred Williams, London, January 1980.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

The decoration on this mug is extremely rare, and seems imbued with strongly symbolic content, although the true meaning remains elusive. Roses, especially an open rose flanked by buds, are traditionally associated with the Jacobite cause, the open rose representing James II and the buds his descendants, the Old and Young Pretenders. This is a motif often used on engraved Jacobite glass, and very occasionally a bird bearing an olive-branch is also found; not, however, together with lily-of-the-valley. To read the symbolic content another way might be to interpret straightforward allegories of love and peace, perhaps alluding to the end of the Seven Years War in 1763.