Comments on: Mortlake Jugs https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: mlaiuppa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340846 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:47:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340846 They remind me very much of German steins only they were more often salt glazed. I especially like the dogs running all over them.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340560 Sat, 30 May 2020 18:03:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340560 The Jugs are Amazing. They are Very Beautiful!!!????????

]]> By: Saba https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340523 Sat, 30 May 2020 13:27:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340523 Wonderful, wonderful scenes, particularly the party near the top. Also, I love that there are often new topics to look up after reading the daily posts. Were these made by pouring ceramic into carved wooden molds? Why the woman hugging the urn in several? Cupid’s progress riding the lion, emblems of England, but, wow, cupid riding a lion … could write an essay just on that. I can picture the people in a town sitting at the pub holding these mugs. Just terrific.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340505 Sat, 30 May 2020 11:07:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340505 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what an interesting collection of Philip Mernick’s Mortlake salt-glazed stoneware jugs. Couldn’t help but notice how prevalent the canine motif was throughout.

We might say these vessels evoke shades of John Keats’s “Ode to a Grecian Urn” –

Cold pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340499 Sat, 30 May 2020 10:06:17 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340499 Splendid jugs. Thank you.

]]> By: Melanie BEACH MASSET https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340466 Sat, 30 May 2020 05:17:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340466 Beautiful! Look as if they must have inspired some of Grayson Perry’s work….

]]> By: Barb Drummond https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340465 Sat, 30 May 2020 05:16:43 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340465 These are amazing. They pack so many images into a small space. Any idea where design came from? Base seems to be running/riding with main scene above. Closest I can think mid misericords with main story in centre flanked by supporters which is purely English

]]> By: Gavroche https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/05/30/mortlake-jugs-x/#comment-1340461 Sat, 30 May 2020 04:52:51 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=181577#comment-1340461 Why is only the top half glazed brown?

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