Overglaze
Printing on earthenware and stoneware 1750-1800
National Museums Liverpool 31.12.74.1
Source Description:
"Toby Fillpot", printed by Carington Bowles, 1786. "Dear Tom this brown jug that now foams with mild Ale / (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) / Was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul / As e'er drank a Bottle or fathom'd a Bowl. / In Boozing about t'was...
Source Description:
"Toby Fillpot", printed by Carington Bowles, 1786. "Dear Tom this brown jug that now foams with mild Ale / (In which I will drink to sweet Nan of the Vale) / Was once Toby Fillpot, a thirsty old Soul / As e'er drank a Bottle or fathom'd a Bowl. / In Boozing about t'was his praise to excell / And among jolly Topers he bore off the Bell. / It chanc'd as in Dog-days he sat at his ease, / In his Flow'r woven Arbour as gay as you please, / With a Friend and a Pipe, puffing Sorrow away, / And with honest old Stingo was soaking his Clay, / His breath Doors of Life on a sudden were shut / And he died full as big as a Dorchester Butt. / His Body when long in the ground it had lain, / And time into Clay had resolv'd it again / A Potter found out in its Covert so snug / And with part of fat Toby he form'd this brown Jug. / Now sacred to Friendship and Mirth and mild Ale, / So here's to my lovely sweet Nan of the Vale." Lines 7 to 12 of this 18-line poem are printed below the image on the mug.
Additional Image:
"Toby Fillpot" is the name on the jug of ale which the drinker holds. An unaccompanied name on the side of a jug is usually that of the intended drinker. The whole point of the Toby Fillpot poem, however, is that the drinker is made into the clay of the jug itself. Is Toby Fillpot pouring or being poured from? Perhaps it is a cycle of Toby Fillpots, and you join the cycle yourself by drinking from this mug.
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Shape Type: Miscellaneous
Pattern Type: Genre Scenes
Date: c. 1786-1805 Dimensions: - Diameter: 3.50 in (8.90 cm)
- Height: 4.72 in (12.00 cm)
- Length: 5.08 in (12.90 cm)
Maker: Unknown Engraver: Richard Abbey
Description:
Creamware mug printed in black with Toby Fillpot. The copper-plate is signed by Richard Abbey as engraver. By 1781 Abbey had moved from Liverpool to Glasgow, where the birth of his daughter in that year is recorded in the register of St Andrew's by the Green. It describes him as "Richard Abbey painter at the Delfthouse an Englishman." Engravings by Abbey may...
Description:
Creamware mug printed in black with Toby Fillpot. The copper-plate is signed by Richard Abbey as engraver. By 1781 Abbey had moved from Liverpool to Glasgow, where the birth of his daughter in that year is recorded in the register of St Andrew's by the Green. It describes him as "Richard Abbey painter at the Delfthouse an Englishman." Engravings by Abbey may therefore be expected on Scottish creamware. He is said to have spent time in France before returning to Liverpool in the 1790s. Printers' signatures indicate that he supplied engraved copper-plates to Liverpool and Staffordshire pottery printers.
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