IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307501 accession number: C.7-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 30 November 2021 updated: Thursday 7 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, printed underglaze in two shades of puce. Circular with a slightly scalloped edge, convex sloping rim, and deep well with curved sides. In the middle an African American family comprising a man, a woman, and two children, are joyfully celebrating their freedom in front of a small hut with behind it, trees, shrubs, and a pole flying a pennant inscribed 'LIBERTY'. Above are the words 'FREEDOM FIRST OF AUGUST', and below, the date '1838'. object type: Earthenware, slightly scalloped edge, printed underglaze in puce with a scene of young African American figures celebrating before a small hut beneath a flag inscribed 'LIBERTY', titled above 'FREEDOM FIRST OF AUGUST' and dated '1838' below, within a dense border of repeated flowerheads. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robin Simpson; purchased at his sale, the Robin Simpson Collection of Commemorative Ceramics, Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 8 September 2021, lot 516 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/307501 SUBJECTS ------------------- emancipation TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1838 - 1838 creation date earliest: 1838 creation date latest: 1838 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.6