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Reform Jug
Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White earthenware, with moulded decoration in relief, lead-glazed and transfer-printing in black
White earthenware, moulded, with applied handle, and clear lead-glaze, transfer-printed onglaze n black. Semi-ovoid body with projecting footring, incurved neck with flowers and foliage in relief on each side, curved lip and applied two-part scroll handle with thumb and finger rests. The print on one side is titled 'Constitution Hill' with a crown below over a man and woman (possibly William IV and Queen Adelaide) with a man running towards them in the distance to left, and on the right, a man wearing a smock and a boy wearing an apron, both holding out their hats. On the right is a group of a boy and three men, two of whom hold axes respectively inscribed 'CHOP' and 'REFORM' and are about to attack a tree titled 'THE OLD ROTTEN TREE', supported by four men. In its branches there are many birds sitting on nests and attached to the trunk, is a label inscribed 'ROTTEN BOROUGH SYSTEM' . To the left of it there is a narrow label inscribed 'BISHOPS CASTLE' , and on the right a longer label inscribed 'You take our lives when you take away the means by which we live'. The back of the handle is printed with a spray of flowers and foliage, and the inside of the neck with a wide border of flowers and foliage broken on one side by a crown and sceptre on a cusion.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Width: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, second quarter#
1830s
William IV
Circa
1832
CE
-
1833
CE
Probably made in Staffordshire
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
Handle
Height 13.5 cm
Body
Height 13 cm
clear
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1136-1928
Primary reference Number: 71400
Old object number: R.2196
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Reform Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71400 Accessed: 2024-11-21 19:01:56
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