IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76016 accession number: C.762-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 February 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and dark brown under very pale blue glaze. Pearlware. Barrel-shaped body with cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and angled strap handle. Painted on one side with a small man leading a brown horse with a yellow blanket, and on the other with a mole catcher holding a spade in his left hand and in his right, a rods and a mole trap resting on his right shoulder. He stands on greensward with a set trap in front of him, and on each side, a trap containing a mole suspended from a rod. Above to the left is a decanter over crossed clay pipes, with a drinking glass to the left. Above to the right is a spray of two blue flowers and leaves. Below the lip is the inscription and date, 'Ralph/Madew/Aged 40/1804', with a spray of tiny blue flowers above, and another to the left. Round the neck there is a yellow and orange scalloped ribbon reserved in a brown ground, with a narrow horizontal brown band below, and a broad blue band above. Round the shoulder there is a broad blue band between two narrow bands, and round the base, and inside of the rim, a blue band. The entire back of the handle is decorated with a spray of paired leaves, and there is feathering at its junction with the body at top and bottom. object type: White earthenware, painted under very pale blue blue glaze with a molecatcher and his implements, a man leading a horse, and the inscription and dated 'Ralph/Madew/Aged 40/1804'. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Withers, Silver Street, Leicester, from whom purchased by Dr Glaisher on 21 June 1910 for £1.15.0. 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/76016 PEOPLE ------------------- Madew, Ralph mole catcher SUBJECTS ------------------- mole trap spade bottle pipe wine glass horse mole catching mole trap spade bottle pipe wine glass horse mole catching TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1804 - 1804 creation date earliest: 1804 creation date latest: 1804 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_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_762_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels