collection of Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

Pattern

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Source

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Source Description:

"The Tythe Pig" engraved by J.S. Muller after Boitard, 1751.

"In Country Village lives a Vicar, / Fond - as all are - of Tythes and Liquor, / To Mirth his Ears are seldom Shut, / He'll Crack a Joke, and laugh at Smut; / But when his Tythes he gathers in, / True Parson then...

 

Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Genre Scenes

Date: c. 1816-1820

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 10.00 in (25.4 cm)

Maker: Andrew Stevenson

Maker's Mark:

Impressed
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Description:

Plate with black painted band at the rim.  The center printed in red/brown with design titled, The Tythe Pig.  The subject was popular on ceramics as a print and may also be found as a figure group.  The subject is 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...


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