Scottish pearlware pottery tea canister moulded with Macaroni figures and decorated with high fired enamels under the glaze, circa 1820

A macaroni (formerly spelled maccaroni) was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable fellow of mid-18th-century England. Stereotypically, men in the macaroni subculture dressed, spoke, and behaved in an unusually sentimental and androgynous manner. The term “macaroni” pejoratively referred to a man who “exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion” in terms of high-end clothing, fastidious eating, and gambling. He mixed Continental affectations with his English nature, like a practitioner of macaronic verse (which mixed English and Latin to comic effect), laying himself open to satire.

Height: 4 ¾”

Condition: Chip on the shoulder and two short hairlines to the rim



£165

US$205

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