IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76334 accession number: C.90-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 April 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white earthenware transfer-printed, painted in blue, green, yellow and red enamels, and lustred pink. Cylindrical with two horizontal strap handles with trefoil leaf terminals. Decorated on the front with an oval printed view of Sunderland Bridge inscribed 'A WEST VIEW of the CAST IRON BRIDGE Over the RIVER WEAR BUILT BY R BURDON Esqr/Span 236 Feet Height 100 Feet Begun 24 Sepr 1793 Opend 9 Aug 1796'. The other side is decorated with a wreath of printed and enamelled flowers and foliage enclosing the verse: 'THE GOOD WIFE.'/Show me the wife that's on the watch/For every little rent, or scratch,/And cures it with a timely patch/Before you know it;/She is a women (sic) fit to match,/A Lord, or Poet.' The rest of the surface is decorated with pink lustre 'clouds'. There is a broad pink lustre band on the interior, top and exterior of the rim, and on each handle a spot flanked by horizontal strokes. object type: Glazed earthenware two-handled pot, transfer-printed, enamelled and lustred with a view of Sunderland Bridge and a verse. title: two-handled pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: uncertain before donor, G.H.W. Rylands, Litt. 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/76334 SUBJECTS ------------------- bridge River Wear Sunderland Bridge Sunderland bridge River Wear Sunderland Bridge Sunderland CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century culture: George IV culture: William IV culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Garrison Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain CITATIONS -------- Sunderland Pottery From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_90_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_90_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_90_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_90_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_90_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_90_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_90_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_90_1997_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels