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Pitcher 1995-71
Jug, pewter barrel-shaped
Pitcher 1995-71

Jug, pewter barrel-shaped

Date1790-1805
Artist/Maker James Vickers
OriginEngland, Sheffield
MediumPewter
DimensionsOH: 7 5/16"; Diam (base): 3 ¼"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1995-71
Descriptionbarrel-shaped jug
Label TextThis handsome jug is in the early neoclassic taste. Its body of slender barrel form reminds one of objects in early silverplate from Sheffield and small forms in sterling, such as coffee jugs, paired beakers, and the bodies of some nutmeg graters.

This jug was made in Sheffield by James Vickers, who utilized some of the newer technologies of the plating trade to make his Britannia wares. He strove to replicate in rolled sheet pewter the lightened neoclassic forms that were being turned out in that city in the more costly metals. Vickers, in this instance, used more traditional means, casting the body in upper and lower halves and joining them with a seam running around the middle at the point of the body's greatest diameter. The handle and pouring lip are also cast. The base plate was probably cut from a rolled sheet and then soldered in.

InscribedNone
MarkingsTouch mark "I VICKERS" on underside of base (Scott 467).
ProvenanceVendor: Michael Allen Kashden, Edgware, Middlesex.