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Lot Essay
The maker of mounts on the present jug, identified by the mark IC, an animal’s head between, is possibly James Challicombe, who was first mentioned in 1558. This mark is found on stoneware jugs and communion cups dating to 1565 and 1579.
The fashion for adorning stoneware vessels with silver and silver-gilt mounts, as is so often the case, appears to have started at the Royal Court. Glanville records that King Henry VIII's cardinal Wolsey and his administrator Thomas Cromwell both possessed such pots in the 1520s. By 1574 the Jewel House contained examples made for the Marquess of Exeter in 1538 and another which had belonged to Edward, Duke of Somerset from 1552. The cost of mounted pots around the time of the manufacture of the present jug was in the region of £2 to £3. Margaret, Countess of Rutland paid £2.17s.8d for such a piece in 1551.
A 1558 silver-gilt mounted earthenware jug, with earthenware possibly from Pisa, was sold Christie’s London, 3 December 2019, lot 108 from the David Little Collection of Early English Silver.
The fashion for adorning stoneware vessels with silver and silver-gilt mounts, as is so often the case, appears to have started at the Royal Court. Glanville records that King Henry VIII's cardinal Wolsey and his administrator Thomas Cromwell both possessed such pots in the 1520s. By 1574 the Jewel House contained examples made for the Marquess of Exeter in 1538 and another which had belonged to Edward, Duke of Somerset from 1552. The cost of mounted pots around the time of the manufacture of the present jug was in the region of £2 to £3. Margaret, Countess of Rutland paid £2.17s.8d for such a piece in 1551.
A 1558 silver-gilt mounted earthenware jug, with earthenware possibly from Pisa, was sold Christie’s London, 3 December 2019, lot 108 from the David Little Collection of Early English Silver.