IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73086 accession number: C.2084-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, impressed, and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple before salt-glazing. The jug has an almost globular body contracting at the top into a cylindrical neck with a pinched lip, and a horizontal cordon level with the top of the applied handle which has a vertical groove and a curled up 'kick' at its lower end. The shoulder is encircled by a row of blue arches enclosing impressed flower heads with manganese-purple centres. On the front is an oval applied medallion with richly dressed half-figures of a woman (L) and a man (R) wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece (probably the Stadholder William of Orange and his wife Mary Stuart), with a winged cherub's head above, a carnation or pink below, and a border of foliated scrolls. The figures and border are coloured manganese with a blue ground and outer border. On either side there are rampant lions in relief coloured manganese within scalloped blue borders. On both sides there is an oval medalllion with a blue border, enclosing the arms of a bishop with above the date '1683', and the motto, 'NEC .TEMERE.NEC.TIMIDE' (neither rashly nor timidly), picked out in manganese and blue. At the bottom of the medallion on the right side are the initials 'WR'. There are two blue horizontal bands round the neck, and a vertical line with sloping strokes on either side down the back of the handle. object type: grey salt-glazed stoneware with impressed, and applied relief decoration, painted before glazing in blue and manganese-purple: half-figures of a woman and a man wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece; and two medallions enclosing the arms of a bishop, the date '1683', and motto 'NEC.TEMERE.NEC.TIMIDE', and, at the bottom of one medallion, the initials 'WR'. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 18 June, 1928, lot 34; bought by the auctioneer for £10 on behalf of 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/73086 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion man woman coat-of-arms lion man woman coat-of-arms CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1683 - 1683 creation date earliest: 1683 creation date latest: 1683 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Westerald pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 38.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Steinzeug Duits steengoed/German stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_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_2084_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2084_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2084_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2084_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2084_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels