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Lot 114*

A pearlware 'Fair Hebe' jug, dated 1788

11 July 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A pearlware 'Fair Hebe' jug, dated 1788

Modelled by Jean Voyez with three figures in high relief against an oak tree, a gentleman standing on one side, a bottle at his feet and a dog jumping up beside him, a ribbon impressed 'A BUMPER A BUMPER' behind his head, the reverse with a man offering a bird's nest to his female companion, a notice posted above them impressed 'FAIR HEBE', the trunk impressed 'I.Voyez 1788' just below, 20cm high

Footnotes

The many different versions of Fair Hebe jugs are discussed by Robert Charleston in his ECC paper, Jean Voyez, Transactions vol.5, pt.1, pp.8-41. Voyez apparently provided models for Fair Hebe jugs to a number of different potters, including Richard Astbury, Enoch Wood and Robert Garner. A small size jug in plain creamware is known with a portrait on the reverse of the poet William Shenstone, the author of a song from 1743 which included lines in praise of a 'Fair Hebe', quoted in Charleston's paper

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