IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307500 accession number: C.6-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 30 November 2021 updated: Tuesday 3 June 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pearlware, printed on glaze in black with a scene depicting freed slaves celebrating their emancipation. A central, mostly nude, male figure holds his arms aloft, flanked on either side by a woman with a young child (the woman on his left with a book by her side). To the right, another male figure holds aloft his former chains. The background shows a body of water with a ship and some Pyramids (?) in the distance. This scene is printed on both sides of the body of the jug. Beneath the rim (exterior and interior) is a floral border with a central cartouche showing miniature figures by the sea, a ship in the background - a white figure kneeling and offering something to a standing black figure. A group flying the Union Jack can be seen to the left and the figure of Britannia to the right. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robin Simpson; purchased at his sale, the Robin Simpson Collection of Commemorative Ceramics, Woolley & Wallis auction, 8 September 2021, lot 515. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307500 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- printed onglaze CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1834 - 1834 creation date earliest: 1834 creation date latest: 1834 culture: 19th Century, second quarter culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Staffordshire DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition CITATIONS -------- Commemorative Pottery, 1780-1900: a guide for collectors ---