IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71402 accession number: C.1138-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 23 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, thrown and transfer-printed underglaze in black. The jug has an ovoid body with a slightly projecting lower edge, a short cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and harp-shaped strap handle. The exterior is decorated with a railway train travelling to the left through a landscape with hills, trees, two large houses, and a church with a steeple. The locomotive, named WILLIAM THE FOURTH , is followed by an unattached tender truck with one man on board, and three open carriages, the first crowded with men, the second with two ladies and four men, and the third with five men and a seated man and a woman holding a parasol. On the outside and inside of the neck and lip there is a floral border, and on the back of the handle is a vertical design of flowers and scrolls. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Hyam 158 Brompton Road SW, from whom purchased on June 6, 1911 for £5 with another jug and three railway mugs by 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/71402 SUBJECTS ------------------- railway train church travel railway train church travel TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1837 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1837 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Railway History in Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1138_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_1138_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_1138_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_1138_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_1138_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_1138_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_1138_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_1138_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels