Lot
57
Lot 57
A Staffordshire creamware social/political commemorative jug...
Estimate
£300 - £500
A Staffordshire creamware social/political commemorative jug, circa 1792-95, oval cartouche picturing the head and detailing the meddling of Tom Paine above four lines of verse, the reverse with a satire of 'Matrimony and Courtship', height 18cm.
Thomas Paine was a political activist who lived in France during the 1790s and became deeply involved in the French Revolution. In 1792 he was convicted of seditious libel for his pamphlet, 'Rights of Man'. The same year a warrant for his arrest was issued over fears of the revolution spreading to England. Paine was arrested in 1793 and taken to Luxembourg Prison in Paris where he wrote 'The Age of Reason'. He was freed in November 1794 but continued to make enemies among politicians in France, England and America.
More Information
Restoration to the foot and spout, chips around rim and foot, hairline crack across base.
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