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Lot Essay
Comparative Literature:
Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. Chapter IV, pl.
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart-Davies, Hertford 1973. Pl.20, fig.B.
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Pages 55-56.
Methers and lamhogs are traditional Irish drinking vessels. Period methers in known collections all appear to pre-date 1600, whereas lamhogs (see lot 129) carried on in use well into the 19th century. Irish folklore relays that methers were handed to Englishmen to drink from, who would of course unwittingly drink from the sides of the rim rather than the corners of the vessel, and in doing so would spill the content all down their fronts causing much merriment!
Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. Chapter IV, pl.
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart-Davies, Hertford 1973. Pl.20, fig.B.
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Pages 55-56.
Methers and lamhogs are traditional Irish drinking vessels. Period methers in known collections all appear to pre-date 1600, whereas lamhogs (see lot 129) carried on in use well into the 19th century. Irish folklore relays that methers were handed to Englishmen to drink from, who would of course unwittingly drink from the sides of the rim rather than the corners of the vessel, and in doing so would spill the content all down their fronts causing much merriment!