IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76038 accession number: C.776-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed underglaze in brown, and painted overglaze in green and dark pink enamels. The cylindrical mug has a recessed base, and an ear-shaped handle with a slightly projecting thumbpiece at the top, and another porjection lower down. The exterior is decorated with a railway-train going to the right through a landscape with hills, trees, a farmouse, a country house and a church with a spire. The engine is labelled NERO and is followed by a coal truck on which ride the driver and his mate, two closed passenger carriages with luggage on the roof, a brougham with two persons on the box on an open truck, and a guard's van with a Staffordshire Knot on the side. Inside the upper part there is a broad brown scale border with pendant stylized leaves, and down the back of the handle is a vertical brown Gothic style border. The base is printed in brown with the maker's initials, 'W.C. & Co' with above on a wavy ribbon, the pattern name, 'RAILWAY'. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Plymouth by Mrs W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth, who gave it in 1926 as part of a Christmas present 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/76038 SUBJECTS ------------------- railway train carriage railway train carriage TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1900 CREATORS -------- maker: William Cooper & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from all known Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_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_776_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_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_776_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_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_776_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_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_776_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_776_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_776_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_776_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels