A Don Pottery pearlware jug, dated 1812, printed in brown and decorated in bright colours with

A Don Pottery pearlware jug, dated 1812, printed in brown and decorated in bright colours with figures of a man holding a aloft a hat with a ticket inscribed 'Milton', the reverse with a scroll bearing seven lines of verse, beneath the spout inscribed 'JM 1812', some restoration, 15.5cm.

A pugilist and horse breaker by the name of Mellish, who also went under the name of Orange Jumper, was employed by Lord Milton's father, Earl Fitzwilliam, to do his bidding during the 1807 General Election in Yorkshire. Orange was the Fitzwilliam family colour. After a satire by James Gillray published by Hannah Humphrey on 6th March 1809. Cf. David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pls.267 and 268.