Drummer boy jug from Fidelle Duvivier’s month in Worcester surfaces in Exeter

This spiral-moulded cream jug decorated with a drummer boy is from a well-documented Caughley tea and coffee service painted with figural subjects by Fidelle Duvivier during a brief period of work at the Chamberlain factory in Worcester in October 1792.

The wage records for that month include the entry for ‘M Deviea’, deemed a phonetic spelling for M…

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