IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71400 accession number: C.1136-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 6 March 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: white earthenware, with moulded decoration in relief, lead-glazed and transfer-printing in black title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before 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/71400 SUBJECTS ------------------- electoral reform crown tree crown tree TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1832 - 1833 creation date earliest: 1832 creation date latest: 1833 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# culture: 1830s culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.5 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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_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_1136_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1136_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1136_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1136_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels