I replaced my Crown, took
the Orb in my left hand and the Sceptre in my right, and thus loaded proceeded
through the Abbey.
Queen Victoria on her Coronation, Journal, June 28, 1838
With Queen Victoria’s accession in June, 1837, the stoneware gin-flask
potters of Lambeth set to work designing a wide variety of portrait bottles
of the young Queen and of her family. The gray figures at the back of this
group (1 and 2) are believed to represent Victoria’s parents, the Duke
and Duchess of Kent, the former long dead and the latter reduced to tears
during the coronation. To their right (3) stands the towering figure of Prince
Albert, whom Victoria would marry in 1840. The relatively large plinths or
bases on which the figures stand may have been designed to receive paper labels.
6.
Flask with the Queen’s arms incorrectly rendered on the back, salt-glazed
stoneware. Marked on the base Published by S. Green Lambeth, July 20th 1837.
5.
Flask in the shape of Queen Victoria, salt-glazed stoneware. Lambeth, 1837.
4.
Flask in the shape of Queen Victoria, salt-glazed stoneware. Lambeth, 1837.
3.
Flask in the shape of Albert of Saxe-Coburg, Prince Consort, salt-glazed stoneware.
Lambeth, 1840.
2.
Flask in the shape of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, Duchess of Kent, salt-glazed
white stoneware. Lambeth, 1837.
1.
Flask in the shape of Edward, Duke of Kent, salt-glazed white stoneware. Lambeth,
1837.
