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| ANN INGRAM COFFEE POT, c.1770. |
£895 |
I have always found that a pot can take us along an interesting journey of learning...This wonderful creamware teapot with the initials of AI, contained an extract from the family bible stating that Ann Ingram was married to William was born Nov.1752 (and died aged 101 in 1853). I think this may be wrong and that she was born 26.9.1752, the daughter of William & Ann of Holborn, London. Now she was born and baptized at the Lying In Hospital, Endell street only the second Maternity Hospital in London,
The impetus for the creation of a dedicated lying-in hospital was dissatisfaction on the part of the governors of the Middlesex Hospital with its maternity facilities. A new hospital with 20 beds was established in 1749 in Brownlow Street, Long Acre, Holborn, under the presidency of the 2nd Duke of Portland, and initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women. ("Lying-in" is an archaic term for childbirth, referring to the long bedrest prescribed for new mothers in their postpartum confinement.) Consequent on the establishment of the City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women in 1750,and the General Lying-In Hospital (later renamed the Queen Charlotte's Hospital) in 1752, the Holborn hospital changed its name to the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women in 1856..
The Coffee pot illustrates her on both sides picking flowers, so probably made to commemorate her " coming of age" in 1770. |
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