15929843120001312637261000Standard Recordobject-75217170249418833815948523200001702494118070fitz-onlineadlib-object-75217https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/752172fe67377-83e2-3f03-beaf-8a5ca60559ba4referenceagent-113261adlib-agent-113261de6d86cb-ad51-3762-823c-ad1f37e3815eRedgrave, Richardreferenceagent-190602adlib-agent-1906024f60526f-486b-3bab-89ad-b25d52d53a3fAbington, James Leonardreferenceagent-190631adlib-agent-19063161f61922-53e6-3edd-8f84-36df5942fd23Ridgway, Edwardreferenceterm-42825adlib-term-42825858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39dstonewarereferenceterm-107644adlib-term-107644e79751e0-f2fc-3ca2-a955-cc60b31daebbsmear-glazed stonewarereferenceterm-32652adlib-term-3265282d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7beglazeDecorationreferenceterm-115adlib-term-11594d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8NatureApplied ArtsPale grey, relief moulded, smear glazed, stoneware.Water jug, circular in plan with bulbous body, short, slightly flared, neck, pinched spout and over-arching handle, standing on a thin footring. The neck is shaped in a rough hexagon, with the rim shaped to match the sections. The exterior is decorated with naturalistic bulrushes, in relief, the leaves running from foot to shoulder or rim. The handle is also shaped as a bulrush and leaves. The outside is smear-glazed, the interior fully glazed and shiny. The underside is recessed and smear-glazed.C.47-19811accession numberC.47-198175217priref75217urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75217https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75217referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by Countess Shelagh S. Rietberg, Cambridge, 1981referenceagent-166432adlib-agent-16643246431f0b-ebf0-3857-9a9c-c73542adfde6Rietberg, Shelagh, Countess198119811981givenEntry date: 1981-10-1218481848CE1848circa18481850Design was registered on 7 March 184811850CE18501850productionreferenceagent-160980adlib-agent-1609807a83d9b5-7352-3ae3-9950-be68d6de8d1cRidgway & Abingtonreferenceagent-190601adlib-agent-1906018a43a61b-26ec-3dfe-978f-290165b4d453William Ridgway & CoRelief moulded jugs were popular in mid 19th Century homes. The smear-glazing makes the most of the way that colour-stained clays show off crisply-moulded ornament, whilst the stoneware would be durable in an everyday setting. There are several examples in the Fitzwilliam Collection. This jug’s bulrush design indicates its function, as a water jug.The Ridgway family produced stoneware and porcelain in Staffordshire from the 1790s until the 20th Century. Trained by their father, Job, the brothers William and John already had a reputation for drab (coloured) stoneware decorated with applied relief sprigs when William Ridgway established Church Works, Hanley, in 1831. He was also a noted philanthropist, building alms houses and a school for local children – many of whom he employed in his potteries. With his partner James Leonard Abington and (later) his son Edward, by 1843 he operated six pot-works in Hanley and Shelton. The business became known for its relief-moulded jugs, for which it is likely that Abington was the modeller, and was re-named Ridgway & Abington in 1845. One of the first to offer such jugs, in the early 1830s, they produced some 26 designs over the next 30 years. Other potters followed, notably Minton and Charles Meigh, and relief moulded jugs (some with ceramic or metal lids) in a wide variety of design became a popular household mainstay for water, beer milk and other liquids which might now be kept in bottles, cans or plastic jars.The decoration is unusual. However, an 1849 review in The Journal of Design and Manufactures commends it over the more common use of narrative or classical designs: 'The bulrush jug is calculated for a large sale, by reason, as it seems, of its demanding probably little labour to finish it, and its consequent cheapness… we presume [it] is for tee-totallers, from the watery character of its ornament’. The same design was used on a mustard pot and a sugar box, both with metal lids, and some jugs have ‘BULRUSH’ impressed on the base; only two Ridgway jug designs were named in this way. The design seems to have instigated a new fashion, as several other potteries, notably Dudson, produced naturalistic relief moulded jugs from the 1850s. It may have been influenced by Richard Redgrave’s 1847 ‘Well Spring’ carafe, is decorated with water weeds and flower heads, which is also in the Fitzwilliam Collection (C.50-1972).referenceterm-106851adlib-term-106851e155f998-1e0b-3f2a-851c-24f44d05dd5919th Century, Mid#referenceterm-15214adlib-term-15214744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9bVictorianreferenceterm-110443adlib-term-1104438e41da15-698e-303b-ac89-c241a4e52efcliteralEnglandEnglandcountryliteralStaffordshireStaffordshireregionHanleypale greyreferenceterm-42825adlib-term-42825858e5d17-b554-33d6-936f-25b16f72f39dstonewareHeightcm20Widthcm18referencemedia-44610adlib-media-446103f508f24-f831-3f3f-8ade-006cd9a9782ajpegaa/aa19/C_47_1981_285_29.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels57816162503990991imagejpegaa/aa19/mid_C_47_1981_285_29.jpg1heightpixels657widthpixels50016162503990991imagejpegaa/aa19/C_47_1981_285_29.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels57816162503990991imagejpegaa/aa19/preview_C_47_1981_285_29.jpg1heightpixels329widthpixels25016162503990991image0media
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imagereferenceterm-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugreferenceterm-133695adlib-term-133695dcb40d8b-7ed9-31d1-ac20-7e0c30cd82darelief moulded jugwater jughistory noteCountess Shelagh S. Rietberg, Cambridge1referenceobject-26927adlib-object-26927930e521c-251f-38a2-baaf-fa551f7968cf1reference1term-91023adlib-term-910238d6e71b7-7004-36a6-8500-4f492481ea1fcarafecarafe1referenceobject-107884adlib-object-107884cdb968dd-3b15-3d06-8cac-4878337945ec1reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-75185adlib-object-75185d9f0f7b6-3e10-3914-a144-d68efa4eab891reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-74967adlib-object-749673f720211-74d0-36d8-b84e-b31ca2847cbb1reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-75578adlib-object-75578ceca75af-141e-34b1-aaec-504643be73a61reference1term-91080adlib-term-91080a8289e14-aa5b-3c51-aa56-05718e907be0dessert dishdessert dish1referenceobject-71533adlib-object-7153352716005-14ff-364a-b7e9-c335626bb4531reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-75657adlib-object-7565745c734ed-b498-310e-b6f5-63e2ba3516291reference1term-68009adlib-term-6800991f3a501-d5d5-3088-afd6-87f5515a9250candlestickcandlestick1referenceobject-75252adlib-object-752523bc3e7fa-84eb-349f-bbc1-64b427ea60a81reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-136937adlib-object-13693753e211de-7745-3c10-973b-d70ea15fd3ff1reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjug1referenceobject-75678adlib-object-756780326bc43-a84a-38d2-97fa-32d54662a1001reference1term-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjugreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. With colour illustration, pp. 106-7, no. 48pp. 106-7referencepublication-1030adlib-publication-10309cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English PotteryCf. The Bulrush jug is illustrated and compared with jugs by Copeland and Minton. An essay by Richard Redgrave, 'Importance of the Study of Botany to the Ornamentalist' is in the same volume.16referencepublication-200001183adlib-publication-20000118348017b92-9496-3c4b-b866-203fccb01004The Journal of Design and ManufacturesRef. The design is illustrated and discussed, see p. 53, fig. 7p. 53referencepublication-1508adlib-publication-1508e85553c5-9ccd-38e9-be31-91db994e0a76Victorian PotteryCf. A blue example, height 24 cm, and a mustard pot with britannia metal lid, both in the same Bulrush pattern.pp. 70-1referencepublication-2707adlib-publication-27077930037b-b9e9-33ee-9c08-7542049d8e4eRelief-Moulded Jugs 1820-1900Cf. Also information about William Ridgway’s products (Chapter IV) and pages from the company’s pattern book showing designs for relief-moulded products, including jugs, along with matching examples (Plates 109-113).34-35, 62, 78referencepublication-2737adlib-publication-2737275f4977-dfdc-3195-a14b-19b1a9652a6aIllustrated Guide to Ridgway PorcelainsRef. information about Ridgway sprig decorated stoneware (illustrated p.144, V&A no.C.38&A, made 1810-20).143-45, 182, 184referencepublication-5541adlib-publication-55415f1c299b-a6dd-3621-9e7b-128c00e539b3English Pottery 1620-1840referencepublication-7643adlib-publication-7643739360c2-8112-32c7-a914-bb9bdf270094Victorian Relief-Moulded JugsRef. information about the Ridgway family potteries.278referencepublication-2669adlib-publication-2669aa0d3603-2ba6-3e9d-90d9-3f0d5506093fEncyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuriesplantreferenceterm-33623adlib-term-336230edebb79-fd3f-39a2-b07f-23828df37665bulrushliteralbulrushbulrushreferenceterm-89400adlib-term-89400194f8c99-93e1-30de-9465-9209222dafaajugjugPress-moulded, smear-glazed stoneware with glazed interior.referenceterm-120085adlib-term-12008568c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714press-mouldingreferenceterm-120088adlib-term-120088ee29feb5-38c9-382d-a47a-43187a884bf1smear-glazing'Bulrush' jugobject
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