IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73017
accession number:	C.20-1995

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 15 April 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream-coloured earthenware with yellowish lead-glaze, painted in black enamel. Cylindrical, tapering slightly towards the top, with recessed base and reeded handle with pronounced 'kick'. Immediately below the rim, and about .6 cm up from the base there is a row of rouletted beading. The front is decorated with a pseudo coat-of-arms incorporating the words 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Mag./Char', supported by an English mastiff and a cock and surmounted by a helmet and Cap of Liberty. Below is the motto 'PRO REGE LEGE ET GREGE'. Above is a panel enclosing the words 'ARMS granted to JOHN WILKES Esq./the Assertor of British freedom. By Liberty/King at Arms.'. On each side of the panel, extending to the handle is a border of diaper work.
object type: Creamware painted in black enamel with a pseudo-coat-of-arms for John Wilkes and an inscription
title:	mug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Professor and Mrs Frank Goldby


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Professor and Mrs Frank Goldby

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73017

PEOPLE
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Wilkes, John

SUBJECTS
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freedom
liberty
coat-of-arms
dog
cock
keys
helmet
liberty
coat-of-arms
dog
cock
keys
helmet



TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: creamware

DATING
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creation date:	1770 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.7



CITATIONS
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English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
John Wilkes Celebrated in Ceramics
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