IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14925 accession number: GPL.221-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 16 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print. Circular. On top of lid 'The Interior of the Grand International Building of 1851', opening ceremony, inscribed 'THE INTERIOR OF THE GRAND INTERNATIONAL BUILDING OF 1851' and 'For the Exhibition of Art and Industry of all Nations.'; blue border with reserved oval beads; black key plate. title: pot lid NOTES ----- type: history note value: probably bought on 29 February 1925 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14925 SUBJECTS ------------------- Great Exhibition of 1851 exhibition The Great Exhibition exhibition The Great Exhibition TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print, black key plate moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1851 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century, Mid-Late culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: T. J. & J. Mayer DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.9 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Pot Lids and their Potters The Price Guide to Pot-Lids and other Underglaze Multicolour Prints on Ware Pot-Lids and Other Coloured Printed Staffordshire Wares, Reference & Price Guide ---