MID 18TH C 1 PINT SCOTCH HUNTING JUG PITCHER (PROB. PORT DUNDAS POTTERY GLASGOW)

Description

This jug is 5-3/4" tall and is marked 1 for one imperial pint. It was probably for bar use. It is in undamaged condition. There is a touch mark on the handle seen in picture two. The sprigs and form make it likely that it was made at the Port Dudas Pottery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is unmarked, but there is an example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and a similar one is pictured in Robin Hildyard's book Brown Muggs. He says it is from Port Dudas. It likely dates from the 1840s. Around the shoulder are five sprigs. Starting from the top right of the handle: 1. Is a fellow drinking at a table with mug in one hand and a bottle in the other with a barrel nearby, 2. Tree sprig, 3. Three fellows, one smoking with empty bottle on table, the central figure has a bottle in one hand and a mug in the other, and the last fellow is smoking and holding a mug, 4. is a tree sprig, 5. Thea last fellow is sitting on a barrel at a table mug in hand and a tree in the background. On the lower half left to right we see a rider on horseback behind seven dogs chasing a stag. The straight up neck makes it different from later pitchers. It was probably used to serve another pint.