IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71389 accession number: C.1129-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 16 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware transfer-printed in blue under bluish lead-glaze (pearlware). The cylindrical mug has a projecting lower edge, and an angular handle with slightly projecting thumbpiece. The outside is decorated with a train travelling to the right on a bridge over a canal towards Westgate Station with a church spire behind it. Below on the right and left there are flowering plants and on the extreme rght, a tree. The locomotive, named 'VICTORY', is followed by a tender labelled 'SRRW', and three closed passenger coaches, with luggage and on two also figures on the roof. On the canal a barge with two men aboard is being towed by a horse on the tow path. Above the train is the inscription SHEFFIELD & ROTHERHAM RAILWAY/OPENED OCTOBER 31. 1838.' Inside the rim is a border comprising a shaped panel with a scrolled edge, a locomotive, tender and three closed passenger carriages, another scrolled panel, and a locomotive, tender and four closed passenger carriages. On the top of the handle there is a blurred formal plant motif. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs W.D. Dickson, Bournemouth by whom given on 2 February 1926 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/71389 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1838 - 1839 creation date earliest: 1838 creation date latest: 1839 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Don Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1129_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1129_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1129_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1129_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1129_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1129_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1129_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_1129_1928.jpg height: 742 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_1129_1928.jpg height: 488 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_1129_1928.jpg height: 742 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_1129_1928.jpg height: 244 pixels width: 250 pixels