IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75327 accession number: C.503 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, thrown in two parts, with applied ears, muzzle, chain, rear feet and forelegs, applied chippings of clay to simulate fur, and details added in brown slip before salt-glazing. The bear has a tubby body with a cylindrical neck and is made to rest upright on its haunches or crouching on its hind feet with front legs extended. The head is detachable to serve as a cup and has a three-link chain through a hole in the top of the muzzle. The head and body are covered in chippings of clay fur. There are three lines of brown slip on each of its feet, and short dashes on the edge of its ears, and the end of its muzzle, and tongue. The lower part of the cup is plain with twelve circles of brown spots around central spots. The eyes are formed by flattened circles of clay filled with brown slip. object type: white salt-glazed stoneware bear jug with applied shredded clay fur, and details in brown slip title: bear jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 31 October 1919, lot 55; bought for £5.5s.0d. by Mack on behalf of 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/75327 TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles British Ceramics British Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/c_503_20_26_20A_1928_1_201411_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 975 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/mid_c_503_20_26_20A_1928_1_201411_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 476 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/c_503_20_26_20A_1928_1_201411_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 975 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/preview_c_503_20_26_20A_1928_1_201411_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 238 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_503_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_503_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_503_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_503_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_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_503_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels