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Reform Jug
White earthenware transfer-printed in dark pink. The jug has a bulbous body, wide straight-sided neck, curved lip and angular loop handle. On the front, a lion crouches in front of two short columns with the words ‘LORDS/MAJORITY/81 COMMONS/MAJORITY/16’ above a crown and the words ‘THE PURITY OF THE CONSITUTION RESTORED 1832’. On one side are circular medallions enclosing portraits and the legends, ‘EARL GREY, LORD ALTHORP, LORD JOHN RUSSELL, LORD BROUGHAM’ with above and below, the words ‘THE ZEALOUS & SUCCESSFUL/PROMOTERS OF REFORM’. On the reverse is a wreath of national floral emblems enclosing the words ‘ROYAL ASSENT/TO THE/REFORM/ BILL 7 JUNE 1832’. On each side of the neck, clasped hands and a floral motif.
History note: Mr Bradley, Hitchin, from whom purchased on 28 November 1908 for 10s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, second quarter#
William IV
Circa
1832
CE
-
1833
CE
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( dark pink)
Accession number: C.1156-1928
Primary reference Number: 71427
Old object number: 2924
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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