IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75956 accession number: C.740-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware covered in clear lead-glaze, transfer-printed onglaze in black and coloured in red, blue, black, green, yellow, brown and ochre enamels. The jug has a bulbous body, cyclindrical neck and scroll handle. Printed on one side of the neck of the jug is ‘EUROPE PRESERVED / September 14th 1812’. Beneath this title, on the body of the jug, is the inscription ‘Specimen of RUSSIAN chopping BLOCKS’ over a bearded Russian soldier with a sabre hanging from his belt. He raises an axe, ready to bring it down on a Napoleonic soldier, who kneels over two of his fallen comrades, both of whom have bloodied head wounds. Underneath is a Russian inscription, which translates as ‘There were hordes of you weren’t there? Well, that's the lot! That’s what you were up to, trying to hack your way through; in future you won’t give any trouble’, and an English one, which reads ‘So you’r the last! says this brave honest Man. Now Nap return to Russia if you can’. Underneath the lip of the jug is a figure mounted on a horse with a sabre hanging from his belt and a tall fur-trimmed hat; he is labelled ‘COSACK’. On the other side of the jug, '“HOURRAH Your SERENE HIGHNESS!!”’ is printed on the neck. Beneath, on the body of the jug, is a Russian soldier, carrying his gun over his right shoulder: hanging from the barrel are three Napoleonic soldiers with two more skewered on the bayonet. The Russian soldier is led by a small boy who carries a standard in the shape of an eagle. In the background are military tents. Underneath is an inscription in Russian, which has been translated as ‘Bringing home a bunch of spillikins for the pleasure of the children’, and an English inscription: ‘A RUSSIAN BOOR returning from his FIELD SPORTS’. Enamels have been used to colour the prints: the Napoleonic soldiers have blue coats, red waistcoats, yellow breeches and black hats with red feathers. The Russian soldiers have red hats and belts, ochre coats and blue breeches. The Cosack and small boy are clad all in red. The ground painted with bands of green, light brown and dark brown. The rim of the jug and the edges of the handle are painted green. object type: Lead-glazed creamware transfer-printed in black and coloured in enamels. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before sold by Mrs Goldsborough, Salisbury, on 31 December 1919 for £5 to 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/75956 SUBJECTS ------------------- Napoleonic Wars Napoleonic Wars TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer printing TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1813 - 1813 creation date earliest: 1813 creation date latest: 1813 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified English factory maker: Terebenev, Ivan Ivanovic maker: Cruikshank, George DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Width units: cm value: 32.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_740_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_740_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_740_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_740_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_740_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_740_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_740_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_740_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_740_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels