IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73047 accession number: C.2047-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware, thrown, with incised and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple and salt-glazed. The jug has a globular body with a cylindrical neck and a loop handle with two holes on the top for the attachment of a mount. The circular base is slightly concave underneath. On the front is an applied medallion with the cypher GR in blue for George I or George II, with above, a crown flanked by two birds, and below, a winged cherub's head. On either side of it round the widest part of the body are broad bands of blue and grey chequer pattern. Above and below are bands of formal flowers and tendrils on continuous wavy stems reserved in a blue ground, The neck is rilled horizontally and painted overall in manganese-purple. object type: grey stoneware with incised and applied relief decoration coloured in manganese-purple and cobalt-blue, and salt-glazed: wide horizontal bands of floriated scrolls and chequer pattern, broken on the front by an applied medallion containing the initials GR title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's, 12 February, 1909, part of lot 101, the property of a lady; sold for £10.10s.0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge. 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/73047 PEOPLE ------------------- George I (1714-27) George II (1727-60) SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking cipher crown bird cipher crown bird CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1714 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1714 creation date latest: 1740 culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Steinzeug German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2047_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2047_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2047_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2047_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2047_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2047_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2047_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels