Cambridgeshire Election Jug
Factory: Denby Pottery
Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip, printed in black with inscriptions and busts of the successful Liberal candidates for Cambridgeshire in the Parliamentary election of 1906
Salt-glazed stoneware, with brown dip on the upper part , printed in black. Of squat ovoid shape with an escutcheon in relief on the front, a very broad trilobate mouth, and a strap handle with two vertical depressions and a rounded lower end. Decorated below the dipped area on the front with an inscription in black, ‘Memento of the Liberal Victories at the General Election/ in Cambridgeshire January 1906’ and over the escutcheon ‘The noblest/motive/is the /public good’. To the left are two bust portraits of the candidates, their name, constituency, and majority; E.S. Montague/West Cambs/Majority 513’ and’ S.G. Buckmaster/Borough/Majority 308’, and to the right, two more with similar inscriptions, C.D. Rose/East Cambs/Majority 783’ and’A.C. Beck/ North Cambs/Majority 1.045’.
History note: Private collection
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2006-07-17) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
20th Century, Early
Edward VII
Production date:
AD 1906
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
Upper Part
composed of
brown dip
Spout-handle
Length 18 cm
Moulding : Buff salt-glazed stoneware, moulded, with brown dip
Inscription present: in oval outline with a scalloped edge, the first and last words curved to fit it
Accession number: C.30-2006
Primary reference Number: 131314
Entry form number: 818
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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