Royal Doulton Jug – Sairy Gamp
$85.00
1 in stock
Description
Royal Doulton ‘Sairey Gamp’ Jug. Measures approximately 20cm x 15.5cm. No damage.
The Sairy Gamp was a fictional character from Charles Dicken’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Sarah Gamp is a high spirited Old Cockney sketchily trained nurse & midwife who is as enthusiastic at laying out a corpse as she is at delivering a baby. She became a stereotype of untrained and incompetent nurses of the early Victorian era, before the reforms of campaigners like Florence Nightingale.
