IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131312 accession number: C.29-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ovoid body with a short cylindrical neck, a projecting spout and a scalloped rim. The handle is moulded to suggest leaves and rises up above the rim. On one side is an applied, white stoneware relief bust of William IV, dressed in in regal robes and set amongst roses, shamrock leaves and a thistle; on the othr side is a similarly presented bust of Queen Adelaide. On each side of the neck is an applied white sprig design og royal regalia set on a cushion, with flowers and foliage. The ground between the reliefs is covered with a moulded trellis containing four-petalled flowers, with a scallop-like leaf beneath the spout. The interior is fully glazed, the outside and recessed base are smear-glazed. object type: Pale grey-green relief-moulded stoneware jug, decorated with moulded reliefs. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: private collection LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131312 PEOPLE ------------------- Minton, Herbert William IV of England Queen Adelaide SUBJECTS ------------------- Coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide in 1831 crown sword cushion rose thistle shamrock crown sword cushion rose thistle shamrock TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale grey relief-moulded stoneware with applied white reliefs, and glazed interior relief-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: relief-moulded stoneware category: smear-glazed stoneware category: sprigged stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1831 - 1837 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1837 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Minton DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 CITATIONS -------- Relief-Moulded Jugs 1820-1900 Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production Minton Pottery and Porcelain of the First Period 1793-1850 Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ---