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Royal Doulton Prototype Village Blacksmith Jug
Estimate:
$2,000 - $4,000
Sold
$1,800
Live Auction
January Collectors Auction, Day 1
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Description
A unique version with variations in color on loving cup and minor modeling differences from the other Village Blacksmith in circulation. Village Blacksmith is working as a group of children watch him from a far. Lots of leaves and vines, as well as a horseshoe border on the bottom trim.
The Village Blacksmith idealizes the image of the hard-working smith at toil in a sleepy village. Two verses in particular are well illustrated on the jug: Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands And the children coming home from school look in the open door They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor Featured on the base of the handle is a milestone with the poems title on one side and LONG-FELLOW 1842 on the reverse, the date of the poems publication in Ballads and other poems . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807- 1882) was born in Portland, Maine, USA. He became a professor of modern languages at Harvard and travelled extensively in Europe, being the guest of Dickens in 1842. #longfellow #blacksmith #forge
Artist: Charles Noke
Issued: 1936
Dimensions: 7.75"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Provenance: David Bearman Collection
The Village Blacksmith idealizes the image of the hard-working smith at toil in a sleepy village. Two verses in particular are well illustrated on the jug: Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands And the children coming home from school look in the open door They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor Featured on the base of the handle is a milestone with the poems title on one side and LONG-FELLOW 1842 on the reverse, the date of the poems publication in Ballads and other poems . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807- 1882) was born in Portland, Maine, USA. He became a professor of modern languages at Harvard and travelled extensively in Europe, being the guest of Dickens in 1842. #longfellow #blacksmith #forge
Artist: Charles Noke
Issued: 1936
Dimensions: 7.75"H
Manufacturer: Royal Doulton
Country of Origin: England
Provenance: David Bearman Collection