£170
An English porcelain 'Success to Trade' jug, painted with a portrait of a black Moorish gentleman in a yellow headdress inscribed 'T. WEBSTER 1821', with coat of arms and motto 'Upon my Honour, Quid Rides' (Why do you Laugh?) and 'The Hand that reveals & the Heart the conceals', opposed by a further coat of arms for a butcher or similar merchant trade, the portrait panel probably representing to the owner's shop or business name - e.g. 'Blackamoor's-Head', unmarked, 21cm high Provenance: The Ivor Southorn Collection. With lot label for Sotheby's, 23rd November 1993, lot 155 and a paper note 'Given to our grandparents the Rev'd James & Mrs Hitchings by Josiah Wedgwood for a wedding present. James Hitchings was at Oxford with Josiah Wedgwood'. The details on this note appear to be erroneous. Reverend James Hitchins was the second son of Sir Edward Hitchings (1749–1825) Mayor of Oxford. On the 24th October, 1806 James was matriculated at the University of Oxford by Christ Church at the age of 16. He received his BA in 1810, served as an Ensign with the Oxfordshire Local Militia in 1812, was Curate of Stratton Audley in 1813 and Vicar of Wargrave, Berkshire, from 1826 until his death on 7th May 1850.
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