IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75941
accession number:	C.731-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale cream-coloured earthenware lead-glazed and transfer-printed in black, using the glue bat method. The wheel-thrown mug is a cylindrical shape with a loop handle. Opposite the handle is printed an image with the title ‘THE DEATH OF GENL WOLFE’. The collapsed General is shown surrounded by his supporters with his musket and battle gear in front on him; two more onlookers are placed off to the left. The scene takes place in a landscape with trees in the background.
object type: Creamware, lead-glazed and decorated with overglaze transfer printing.
title:	mug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: provence unknown before Lord Swaythling collection; sold at Christie’s on 8 May 1924, 'The Swaythling Heirlooms sold by order of the Trustees of the Rt Hon. Montagu, First Lord Swaythling deceased, being part of the Swaythling heirlooms', lot 53, where it was bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75941

PEOPLE
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Wolfe, James




TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: creamware
category: transfer-printed ware

DATING
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creation date:	1776 - 1785
creation date earliest:	1776
creation date latest:	1785
culture:	18th Century, Late#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 11.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
European Ceramics
Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820
Creamware and Pearlware. The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society
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