IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76351 accession number: C.91-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, lead-glazed yellow, bat-printed onglaze in black, and painted in red, green, and dark reddish-brown enamels. Ovoid body with projecting footring, cylindrical neck with projecting lip, and angular handle with a straight back, an inward scroll at the top, and two concave curves and a slight kick at the bottom. On one side it is printed with a vignette of an allegorical female figure seated holding up a lantern, seated in front of a horse, titled EUROPE below. This is repeated smaller and surrounded by a reddish brown circle on the front. On the other side is a wreath of flowers and foliage with a military trophy at top centre, and a shield flanked by palm branches at bottom centre. Inside it is a verse: 'When Britain calls, her sons will fly,/With British hearts to aid her,/Will conquer or will nobly die:/To crush the proud invader,/When wars terrific, voice shall cease/The glorious combat ended,/We'll shade us in the bow'r of peac[e]/By sacred laws defended,/O'er flowing bowls with each his glass,/We'll drink, to ev'ry pretty lass.' Below, and round the shoulder, there is a horizontal reddish-brown enamel band. Both sides of the neck are painted with a wavy spray of red berries and green trefoil leaves. The lip is outlined in reddish-brown enamel, and there is a thicker line round the rim. There are reddish-brown lines down the sides of the handle and across the top angle. object type: Yellow-glazed earthenware, bat-printed in black with allegorical figure of Europe and verse and painted in enamels. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance uncertain before R.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/76351 TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer printing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: yellow-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified English pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.6 CITATIONS -------- The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth: forming the most complete, extensive and valuable collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language, volume II English Yellow-glazed Earthenware Creamware and Pearlware. 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