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Success to the Fustian Dressers
Factory: Unidentified Liverpool factory (Probably)
Creamware, transfer-printed onglaze in black. The jug has a barrel-shaped body with a curved projecting spout and loop handle. On one side, in an oval medallion, is a tall factory by the coast, flanked by two smaller medallions showing a man with a bucket of wool by his side, and a woman spinning; above, on a ribbon, and below, repeated, the words: Success to the Steam Engine Erecd March 1st 1792’. On the other side, two men at a machine around a chimney withbelow them, ‘SUCCESS to the FUSTIAN DRESSERS/This a Truth you can’t deny/Our Work is hot and very Dry’. On the front under the lip are the words: ‘KING/AND’/CONSTITUTION’ within a wreath with a crown at the top.
History note: Rochelle Thomas’s catalogue, no. 295; bought for £3.10s on 25 April 1923 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1792
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( black)
Accession number: C.1097-1928
Primary reference Number: 71307
Old object number: 4176
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.1722-1928
Accession Number: CM.74-1939
Accession Number: GL.C.64-1928
Accession Number: C.1723-1928
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