IDENTIFIERS
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id:	307499
accession number:	C.5-2021

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 29 November 2021
updated:	Wednesday 27 November 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale blue stoneware, relief-moulded, mounted with hinged Britannia metal cover with thumbpiece. The body of the jug is approximately pear-shaped with an upward flaring lip and a vertical band below the angular handle. It stands on a low circular pedestal foot with twelve alternately curved and straight facets round the edge. The side of the body is decorated with knights in armour, two standing, two jousting on horseback, either side of a striped tent, between an upper border of moulded gothic window tracery and corbels, and a lower borders of gothic fleurs-de-lys and grapevines. with window tracery below.
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: the family of the donor, Dr Robert Ridgway


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Dr Robert Ridgway

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307499

PEOPLE
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knight on horseback

SUBJECTS
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Eglinton Tournament
jousting
vine sprays
jousting
vine sprays



CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: relief-moulded stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1840 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century, Mid
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: William Ridgway, Son & Co
maker: Ridgway, William

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.8

dimension: Width
value: 3.8



CITATIONS
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Relief-Moulded Jugs 1820-1900
The Knight and the Umbrella: An Account of the Eglinton Tournament 1839
Metal Mounts on English Ceramics with particular reference to Sheffield Industries
A Souvenir of the Eglinton Tournament
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