1638295245000 1638265946000 Standard Record object-307501 1748973814466 1748960717000 1748973812576 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-307501 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307501 2b3c0f8b-6ef1-3c02-868d-1eea810b83be 8 reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware presumed lead-glaze reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Surface presumed lead-glaze reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing puce reference term-108168 adlib-term-108168 0fcc3e04-2ff3-3bde-810f-0474bbfa0943 ceramic printing colour Decoration in pink reference term-120103 adlib-term-120103 def8c289-fc76-3bff-8408-2a98b1c6dca1 printing underglaze Applied Arts Earthenware, slightly scalloped edge, printed underglaze in puce with a scene of young African American figures celebrating before a small hut beneath a flag inscribed 'LIBERTY', titled above 'FREEDOM FIRST OF AUGUST' and dated '1838' below, within a dense border of repeated flowerheads. White earthenware, printed underglaze in two shades of puce. Circular with a slightly scalloped edge, convex sloping rim, and deep well with curved sides. In the middle an African American family comprising a man, a woman, and two children, are joyfully celebrating their freedom in front of a small hut with behind it, trees, shrubs, and a pole flying a pennant inscribed 'LIBERTY'. Above are the words 'FREEDOM FIRST OF AUGUST', and below, the date '1838'. reference exhibition-3841 adlib-exhibition-3841 ee3bb82a-928b-36d8-b017-531b1e95b270 Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition C.7-2021 1 accession number C.7-2021 307501 priref 307501 2021 2021 2021-11-03 The Fitzwilliam Museum object entry form 1556 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307501 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307501 on pennant transfer-printed in puce LIBERTY inscription round well transfer-printed in pale puce FREEDOM FIRST OF AUGUST/1838 inscription circular white paper stick-on label printed in black with the inscription round the edge within a narrow black line on base printed in black and hand-written in black ink lot no. Robin Simpson Collection 8921/WOOLLEY & WALLIS/HISTORICAL & COLLECTABLE printed in black surrounding 516 in black ink label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2021 reference agent-194004 adlib-agent-194004 f10591a9-ec73-3d9d-a21a-711831f87bcd Woolley & Wallis reference agent-149645 adlib-agent-149645 10925b71-6838-30f7-a8dd-b68a2afaa14d The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 2021 2021 2021 bought 1838 1838 dated 1838 reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown possibly reference agent-166293 adlib-agent-166293 9a829055-8912-34e7-8c34-136f737dc1d0 Staffordshire This plate depicts a number of formerly enslaved people joyfully celebrating the arrival of 1 August 1838, the date at which formerly enslaved people in the West Indies were granted full emancipation. Unlike many abolitionist ceramics, which depict enslaved people as powerless and grateful, this plate depicts enslaved people without bonds and as joyful to be free of their bondage. Although the Abolition of Slavery Act had come into force on 1 August 1834 (as commemorated on jug C.6-2021), in reality, the formerly enslaved in the British West Indies (over the age of six years old) were made to continue working for their former masters under an unpaid apprentice system lasting four to six years. This period ended prematurely on 1 August 1838, when full emancipation was granted for all enslaved people. reference term-120816 adlib-term-120816 b8c35cb6-f02f-34c9-9dda-b3120e12c749 19th Century, second quarter reference term-109918 adlib-term-109918 b99df2d6-5877-350a-aba8-e750da5d9ef0 William IV reference term-115357 adlib-term-115357 44762685-4c84-3551-b0dc-5239e34de310 literal United Kingdom United Kingdom country United Kingdom reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Diameter cm 27 Height cm 2.6 reference term-34935 adlib-term-34935 b6750733-fe79-33fc-b39a-c296fcd223b4 plate history note Robin Simpson; purchased at his sale, the Robin Simpson Collection of Commemorative Ceramics, Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 8 September 2021, lot 516 1 reference object-307500 adlib-object-307500 4a864496-5c52-3f3a-b06e-1ff15ef29f59

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jug reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British reference term-24477 adlib-term-24477 24960a3a-7a3a-35e5-a8c9-64ff0071011c emancipation

reference term-34935 adlib-term-34935 b6750733-fe79-33fc-b39a-c296fcd223b4 plate

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