IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 200072 accession number: C.773-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 13 January 2015 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The images and text are as follows: (i) on one side: ‘JOHN BULL and his COMPANION Challenging BONAPARTE and his relation’ below and image of the Devil behind Napoleon facing John Bull, who stands beside a lion, a ship in the background. Long inscriptions issue from their mouths. John Bull: ‘‘Come on you Murdering Corsican [Tyrant]. This sprig of Oak will soon be your business and my Companion shall fight your Father there behind you’. Napoleon:: ‘O vat a Terible Jean Bull me be half afraid. Much rather / make Peace now I have obtained the… To Reign is worth Ambition the in Hell’. The Devil: ‘Fight him Dam him, Fight him Bony you’ll soon come home and you Know how impatiently we all wait for you’ (ii) On the other side: ‘One of the 71st taking a French officer prisoner in Portugal’, above an image of a French officer wearing a cocked hat giving up his purse and watch to a Scottish soldier, who wears a kilt and carries a rifle with fixed bayonet. (iii) Under the lip: Four figures supping ale and smoking pipes whiles a fifth plays a recorder, outside an inn inscribed ‘JOLY BOAT MAN’. In the smoke of one of the pipes is written: ‘Success to trade’. object type: Ovoid body tapering slightly to a projecting foot, with a concave cylindrical neck, curved lip and curving, angular handle. Three text and image transfer-prints, over-painted with enamels, under the lip and on each side of the body. A thin band of silver lustre runs around the rim of the jug, another where the neck meets the body and a thinner band around the middle of the neck. The glaze has a slightly bluish ‘pearlware’ tinge. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised foot-rim. object type: White earthenware, transfer-printed over-glaze in black with text and images, and painted with green, yellow, blue, red and red-brown enamels and silver (platinum) lustre. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Hawkins, a retired shoemaker; his sale at Grantham, 1907; bought for £3.12.6 by Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchased for £5 on 31 May 1907 by 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/200072 PEOPLE ------------------- Napoléon I (1804-14) John Bull 71st Highland Light Infantry British Army SUBJECTS ------------------- Peninsular War British Army lion The Devil lion The Devil TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer printing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- lustring CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: transfer-printed ware category: lustreware category: transfer-printed lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1809 - 1814 creation date earliest: 1809 creation date latest: 1814 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 Napoleon in Caricature, 1795-1821 19th Century Lustreware Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ---