IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74532 accession number: C.322-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale red and buff agate ware, coated on the exterior of the body with white slip, except for the lip, and a band immediately above the base, with four horizontal double bands of rouletted beading, and deeply incised decoration under pale yellow lead-glaze. The jug stands on a projecting footring, and has bulbous sides, an incurved cylindrical neck, sparrow beak lip, and strap handle with vertical grooves on each side, and a kick at the lower end. On the front below the lip is the inscription 'George Benteley 1779/Fill us the Other Jug'. The rest of the body is decorated with incised and carved stylized sprays of flowers and foliage which overlay the central rouletted bedading. On the neck there are seven vertical sprays of paired leaves with a large leaf at the top end of each. The interior and the handle are brown. object type: agate ware partially coated with white slip, with rouletted and incised decoration under pale yellow lead-glaze. Inscribed 'George Benteley 1779/Fill us the Other Jug' title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: John Eliot Hodgkin; Wilfrid Harding, corner of King Street and St James's Square, London, from whom purchased on 17 September 1913 for £45 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/74532 PEOPLE ------------------- Benteley, George Hodgkin, John Eliot SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1779 - 1779 creation date earliest: 1779 creation date latest: 1779 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.8 CITATIONS -------- Examples of Early English Pottery, named, dated and inscribed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Slipware, Shire Album 297 Mary Wondrausch on Slipware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_322_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_322_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_322_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_322_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_322_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_322_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_322_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_322_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_322_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels