British & Continental Ceramics & Glass - 2nd September 2025
Lot 179
A small commemorative pearlware lustre mug, c.1819, printed in red with a portrait titled 'Henry
Estimate £150 - £250
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Description
A small commemorative pearlware lustre mug, c.1819, printed in red with a portrait titled 'Henry Hunt Esq' above the inscription 'None of your Butchering Magistrates', the rim with a purple lustre band, 8.7cm.
Cf. John & Jennifer May, Commemorative Pottery 1780-1900, pl.201 and David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, pl.740. The mug refers to the Peterloo Massacre of 16th August 1819; a violent confrontation in Manchester when the yeomanry charged a crowd of some 60,000 gathered to protest for parliamentary reform. The engraving used for this portrait of Hunt is actually that of Commodore William Bainbridge of the United States Navy, previously used in connection with his success in the War of 1812.