Electioneering Jug
c. 1789
Artists
Dimensions
47 x 39.5 x 51 cm (18 1/2 x 15 9/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Provenance
Edmund Wigley, Shakenhurst (1795), by descent to his wife Anna Maria Watkins Meysey Severne, (1821), by descent; to Charles Meysey Meysey Wigley, Anna Maria, Caroline, and Mary Charlotte (1), (1825) by inheritance; to Mary Charlotte and Charles Wickstead, (1845) by inheritance; to Charles Wigley Wickstead (1878), by inheritance; to his wife, Mrs. Wickstead, bequest; to her godson Hugh Gurney, 1906, by descent; to his wife, Sybil Gurney, by bequest; to Michael Meysey Wigley Severne and Rachel Fitzgerald, 1961, by inheritance; to Amanda Caroline Severne, Shakenhurst, 2007, by inheritance; to Rowland and Phoebe Stirling, 2008, sold; [through Christie’s, London, March 20, 2011, Sale 55, Lot 146]. [Robert Hunter British and American Porcelain and Pottery, Yorktown, VA], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014. Notes: 1. According to a transcript of “A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 4,” 1924, the estate passed to Anna Maria’s younger children, Charles Meysey Meysey Wigley, Anna Maria, Caroline, and Mary Charlotte. When Charles died, the three sisters then had ownership of it.
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