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French Liberty and British Liberty
Production: Unidentified Liverpool factory (Probably)
Creamware jug transfer-printed with French Liberty contrasted with British Liberty
Creamware, transfer-printed onglaze in black and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale purple, and red enamels. The jug has an ovoid body which expands towards the base and towards the rim. It has a curved projecting lip and a loop handle. In an oval medallion on one side is a woman with a serpent wreathed round her head, tramplng on a headless corpse and holding in one hand a dagger, in the other a trident on the spikes of which a head and two hearts are impaled; in the background, a man hanging from a lamp-bracket, above, the title: FRENCH LIBERTY, below the words : ‘ATHEISIM, PERJURY,/REBELLION, TREASON, ANARCHY MURDER, EQUALITY, MADNESS, CRUELTY, INJUSTICE,/TREACHERY, INGRATITUDE, IDLENESS,/FAMINE, NATIONAL & PRIVATE RUIN,/MISERY’. In a medallion on the other side is Britannia holding scales, the cap of Liberty and the Magna Carta, sitting with a sleeping lion beside her on the seashore, to the right a British ship; title: ‘BRITISH LIBERTY’, below, the words: ‘RELIGION, MORALITY,/LOYALTY, OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS,/INDEPENDENCE, PERSONAL SECURITY,/JUSTICE INHERITANCE, PROTECTION,/PROPERTY, INDUSTRY, NATIONAL PROSPERITY,/HAPPINESS’. In an oval frame under the spout are the words ‘WHICH/IS/THE BEST’
History note: Stanley Woolston’s shop, Emmanuel Street, Cambridge; bought by Miss Parsons for 10s.0d. and given by her on 20 August, 1921 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1793
CE
-
1800
CE
The two scenes give contrasting views of how contemporaries in Britain and France experienced Liberty. The word ‘MURDER’ in the description of French Liberty probably indicates that the jug was made after the execution of Louis XVI on 23 January 1793.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, pale purple, and red)
ceramic printing colour
Body
cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1098-1928
Primary reference Number: 71308
Old object number: 3814
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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