Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Genre Scenes

Date: 1757-61

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 8.82 in (22.40 cm)
  • Height: 1.06 in (2.70 cm)

Maker: Unknown

Printer: John Sadler

Printer's Mark:

Printed

Description:

Tin-glazed earthenware (so-called delftware) plate printed in black by John Sadler, Liverpool, with "The Tythe Pig", a satire on the tythes or taxes that had to be paid to the parish priest. The priest claims a pig but the farmer's wife thwarts him by adding the condition that he must take the baby.

The print is signed "John Sadler" to one side and "Liverp" to the other side. In exactly this form the print is found also on tin-glazed mugs, where it may also have the accompanying poem. In the same form the print is also found on Chaffers' Liverpool porcelain. An adapted version was used a few years later by Sadler for printing Wedgwood's creamware. Curiously, the version of the print Sadler used on tiles is different: instead of the church being behind the priest and the farmhouse behind the farmer, they are the other way round.   

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