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Other Items from Loving Cups
Captain Cook - Royal Doulton loving cup, Captain Cook, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1933 in a limited edition of 350.
Size: 9.25"H
This loving-cup commemorates Captain Cook's landing on Botany Bay: on one side a party of crewmen are stepping ashore from a longboat, on the other Cook surveys the interior accompanied by his officers. The handles take the formof coconut palms.
Admiral Lord Nelson - Royal Doulton loving cup, Admiral Lord Nelson, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1935 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 10.5"H
This loving-cup, with its block and tackle handles, shows scenes from the Battle of Trafalgar: Admiral Lord Nelson on board his flagship 'Victory', with ENGLAND EXPECTS incised underneath, and a longboat rescuing sailors from the sea before two ships engage in battle, with IT WAS TRAFALGAR BAY incised below.
Pied Piper Of Hamelin - Royal Doulton loving cup, Pied Piper of Hamelin, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1934 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 10"H
Based on the famous story by Robert Downing about a stranger ridding a small town of rats by playing his pipe and leading them to the river. When the townspeople refused to pay the fee, he did the same to the the town's children. Both facets of the tale are illustrated on the jug, with the mayor and council watching the rats depart on one side and the piper leading the children the streets on the other. A version of the story is recorded on the base.
Sir Francis Drake - Royal Doulton loving cup, Sir Francis Drake, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1933 in a limited edition of 500.
Size: 10.5"H
With its rope handle complete with ship's lantern this jug records two events: Drake with the Queen and other backers before the 'Golden Hind', and playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe while awaiting the Armada. An ornate drum is also shown--there is a legend that when England is threatened Drake can be recalled by beating his drum, and under the lip is of "Drake's Drum' by Sir henry Newbolt: 'Take my drum to England, hang it by the shore. Strike it when your powder's runnin' low'. It continues 'If the Dons sight Deven, I'll quit the port o' heaven An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago.
William Shakespeare - Royal Doulton loving cup, William Shakespeare, designed by Charles Noke. Issued 1933 in a limited edition of 1000.
Size: 10.75"H
This jug feautures some of Shakespeare's best-known characters in full-length relief: Hamlet, Othello, Autolycus, Portia, Macbeth, King Lear, Ophelia, Shylock, Touchstone, Katherine and Falstaff. Written around the rim is GREAT HEIR OF FAME DEAR SON OF MEMORY; the handle shows the masks of tragedy and comedy with volumes of his plays; more masks and jester's accoutrements are moulded around the base.
Wandering Minstrel - Royal Doulton loving cup, Wandering Minstrel, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1934 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 5.5"H
The minstrel, sitting footsore on a wall with his lute and meagre possessions, barked at by a dog, must have been pleased to see the lady of the castle appear with a page carrying refreshments. On the base is the phrase 'a merryman moping mum' from a ballad sung by Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta 'Yoeman of the Guard'.
Treasure Island - Royal Doulton loving cup, Treasure Island, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1934 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 7.5"H
Depicted on the jug are two pirates burying a treasure chest, their long-boat drawn up on the beach and their ship waiting off-shore, while on the other side Long John Silver (with his parrot), Jim and some of the crew try to find the treasure from the map. A sketch of the chart appears on the base.
Village Blacksmith - Royal Doulton loving cup, Village Blacksmith, designed by Charles Noke. Issued 1936 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 7.75"H
Most of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's writing was romantic prose and 'The Village Blacksmith' idealises the image of the hard-workingsmithy at toil ina sleepy village. Featured on the base of the handle is a milestone with the poem's title on one side and LONG-FELLOW 1842 on the reverse, the date of the poem's publication in 'Ballads and other Poems'.
Master Of The Foxhounds - Royal Doulton loving cup, Master of the Foxhounds, designed by Charles Noke. Issued 1930 in a limited edition of 500.
Size: 13"H
The oval-shaped jug, with its lip modelled as a rooster's head, shows a pack of hounds runningacross a field hunting for the fox who sits under a tree, dressed in Pink, calmly watching the chase. The handle is in the form of a whip with the thong trailing around the base. This jug is commonly known as the MFH jug.
King George Vi & Elizabeth - Royal Doulton loving cup, King George VI & Elizabeth, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1937 in a limited edition of 2000.
Size: 10.5"H
Due to the suddeness of his accession this loving-cup is very similar to that of Edward VIII. The main difference is that the King and Queen are shown inprofile within a portrait medallion with the legends 'GEORGE I - ELIZABETH R 1937' and 'GOD SAVE THE KING' below.
Apothecary - Royal Doulton loving cup, Apothecary, designed by Charles Noke & Harry Fenton. Issued 1934 in a limited edition of 600.
Size: 6"H
The supplier of love-potions and poisons as well as medicinal drugs, the apothecary played an important role in Elizabethan times. The apothecary on the loving-cup is a successful man: he is seen talking to a richly dressed lady while two dandies wait in an ante-chamber as another customer is admitted by a page. There are pots of ingredients, a pestle and mortar and a large globe. Skeletons adorn the walls and the ghostly faces of lovers are moulded in relief around the rim and handles. On the base are the words spoken by ROmeo before he takes his poison 'O true apothecary Thy drugs are quick'.
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