IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 14924 accession number: GPL.220-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 18 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print. Circular. On top of lid 'The Grand International Building of 1851', with white surround inscribed 'THE GRAND INTERNATIONAL BUILDING OF 1851' and 'For the Exhibition of Art and Industry of all Nations.'; black key plate. title: pot lid NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly bought from Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, on 28 October 1924 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/14924 SUBJECTS ------------------- Great Exhibition of 1851 exhibition The Great Exhibition exhibition The Great Exhibition TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded and decorated underglaze with a multicolour transfer print, black key plate moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: multicolour transfer printing category: commemorative ware DATING ------ creation date: 1851 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century, Mid-Late culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: T. J. & J. Mayer DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.7 CITATIONS -------- James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector Earth and Fire Staffordshire Pot Lids and their Potters The Price Guide to Pot-Lids and other Underglaze Multicolour Prints on Ware Pot-Lids and Other Coloured Printed Staffordshire Wares, Reference & Price Guide --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/GPL_220_1928_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_GPL_220_1928_282_29.jpg height: 503 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/GPL_220_1928_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_GPL_220_1928_282_29.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels