John Schuppe
John Schuppe was a Dutch silversmith working in London and noted for his humorous cow creamers.
John Schuppe is first recorded in England on 28 June 1753 when his name was recorded as a largeworker of Little Deans Court, St Martins-le-Grand. He was registered to 6 New Rents in 1755. In 1773 his name appeared in the Parliamentary Return. The majority of creamers shaped as a cow in the Dutch style between 1753 and 1773 bear his mark. Nothing is known of him after 1773.
One of his cow-shaped creamers is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, with the tail as the handle and a lid on the back with a giant fly on top. A similar jug by Schuppe sold at Bonhams in 2016 for £4,750 including premium.
The theft of a cow-shaped creamer was an element in the comic novel The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse.
