IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75504 accession number: C.55-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The images and text are as follows: (i) to the left of the handle: a bust of William IV (signed 'Kennedy'), flanked by a spray of shamrock and a spray of thistles, each with a rose, and inscribed below 'KING WILLIAM the IV.th/Crowned 8.th Sep.r 1831'. (ii) to the right of the handle: a three-quarters, frontal image of Queen Adelaide (signed 'Kennedy'), flanked by similar floral sprays, and inscribed below 'QUEEN ADELAIDE./Crowned 8.th Sep.r 1831.'. (iii) on the front: a Royal crown imposed on a sunburst and inscribed, below, 'LONG LIVE THE/KING', and above, 'REFORM'. object type: Mug. Wide, straight-sided cylinder with a 'rope' edging round the rim and base, and an applied angular handle. Decorated with three transfer images, each with text, on the outside; two floral sprays on the inside; and a stylized floral pattern on the outside of the handle. Around the transfer decoration is a thin wash of pale pink lustre, covering the outside and on the upper part of the inside. Round the rim and base is a thicker band of pink lustre. There are three spur marks on the interior of the base. The underside is flat and glazed, and slightly recessed to form a foot-rim. object type: Thin white earthenware with a slightly blue-tinted glaze, transfer-printed on-glaze in black with text and images, and painted with pink lustre. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: G.H.W. Rylands, Ltt D., CBE, CH., King's College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75504 PEOPLE ------------------- King William IV Queen Adelaide SUBJECTS ------------------- coronation Reform Act 1832 Brougham, Henry TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware with slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, bat-printed onglaze in greyish-black, and lustred pink, with stronger pink lustre banding. lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: lustreware category: transfer-printed lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1831 - 1832 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1832 culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Chetham & Robinson maker: Chesworth & Robinson maker: Kennedy, James DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.0 CITATIONS -------- An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Illustrated Guide to British Jugs : from mediaeval times to the twentieth century Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from all known Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 19th Century Lustreware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_55_1997_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_55_1997_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_55_1997_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_55_1997_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_55_1997_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_55_1997_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_55_1997_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels