IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71297 accession number: C.1091-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The images and text are as follows: (i) On one side, two sailors drinking, with a Union Jack, a red ensign and verse: ‘Thus smiling at peril at sea or on shore / We box the old compass right cheerly / Toss the grog, boys - & a song or two / Then we’ll drink to the girls we more love dearly.’ (ii) on the other, a fully rigged four-masted sailing ship in full sail, between sprays of red and blue flowers and green leaves, inscribed ‘COLUMBUS the Largest Ship ever Built. Burthen 6,000 tons. Length, 301 feet. Breadth, 50 feet, 7 Inh. Depth 29 Feet 6 Inh.’. object type: Ovoid body tapering slightly to a projecting foot, with cylindrical neck, curved spout and loop handle. Decorated on the body with two transfer-prints over-painted with enamels, each surrounded by a wreath of brown, stylised leaves and with a thinly painted stroke of pink lustre above and below. A line of lustre runs round the rim and foot and down the handle; the neck is decorated with stylised leaves in green and brown. Under the spout is a large anchor, in brown. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised foot-rim. object type: White earthenware, transfer-printed in brown with text and images, and painted with enamels and pink lustre. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr E. Burr, 5 Silver Street, Bedford on March 3, 1910 for £1.1. , by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. 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/71297 SUBJECTS ------------------- sailing seamen ship seamen ship CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware category: lustreware category: transfer-printed lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1826 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1826 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 19th Century Lustreware Sunderland Pottery Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Rhymes and Mottoes on Sunderland Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1091_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1091_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1091_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1091_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1091_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1091_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1091_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1091_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1091_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels