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    COLLECTING: Harvest Jugs

    Sep 01, 2021 4 minutes

    The giant globe-shaped harvest jug commands attention from the opposite end of the room. The 18th-century terracotta and honey-coloured vessel on display in the Burton gallery and museum in Bideford celebrates Ceres, goddess of the harvest. Naively drawn wearing a floaty headdress and tight bodice, she is holding a sickle and a sheaf of corn. On the reverse, a heart-shaped cartouche contains a rhyme, the date 1797 and the name Mr Parker. The whopper of a jug sold at Christie’s in 2010 for £11,875.

    ‘Harvest jug’ is the generic term for the celebratory slipware jugs that were made to hold ale or cider at harvest suppers or other special occasions

    The port town of Bideford in

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