IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73049 accession number: C.2049-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, with incised and applied moulded decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple before salt-glazing. The globular jug stands on a solid disc base. It has a cylindrical neck with horizontal turned rilling, and a small strap handle of D section, which has a hole at the top to take a mount. The front is applied with a circular medallion enclosing the cypher GR for George I (or George II) of England under a crown. Above it is a fan-shaped motif, and on each side, a broad band of chequer pattern with three impressed rosettes above and below. The design is picked out in cobalt-blue and the neck is painted in manganese-purple except for the area below the handle. object type: grey salt-glazed stoneware with incised and applied moulded decoration painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Great Yarmouth in 1893 by S.J. Freeman of Cambridge; bought (in 1893?) 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/73049 SUBJECTS ------------------- cipher cipher CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1714 - 1727 creation date earliest: 1714 creation date latest: 1727 culture: George I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2049_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_2049_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2049_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_2049_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2049_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_2049_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2049_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_2049_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2049_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_2049_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_2049_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_2049_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels