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  • Designer / maker

    Designed by A.W.N. Pugin (1812-52)

    Manufactured by Minton (1793-1968)

  • Detail

    New Stone earthenware, with stencilled polychrome decoration

    26.5 cm (diameter)

    English (Stoke-on-Trent), designed circa 1850, manufactured 1853

  • Marks

    (see below)

  • Provenance

    Designed by Pugin for his own use at The Grange, Ramsgate, and by descent, until acquired by the recent vendor in 1968; Bamfords, 22 June 2022, lot 198

  • Literature

    Jonathan Glancey, with captions by Clive Wainwright, ‘Pugin Reunion’, Architectural Review, November 1984, pp. 5-10

  • Collection

    Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco

  • Notes

    All but three examples of the ceramics designed by Pugin for Ramsgate were acquired for the Palace of Westminster, in around 1984; they are now kept at Speakers’ House.  Another piece is in an English private collection and the third was retained by the recent vendor.

    The Latin inscription around the rim is a verse from Psalm 128: Uxor tua sicut / vitis abundans / in lateribus / domus tuae.  This translates (in the King James Bible) as  ‘Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house’.