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The Jumper Jug
Factory: Don Pottery
White lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in black and painted in enamels
White lead-glazed earthenware decorated with transfer prints in black filled in with yellow, pink, red, shades of brown, grey and black enamels, and banded with dark reddish-brown enamel. Ovoid body with short cylindrical neck, projecting spout, and scroll handle with slightly projecting thumbpiece. Decorated on both sides with a figure of a stout elderly man wearing a red coat and pink waistcoat, standing facing towards the viewer's right, holding up his hat in his left hand. On the hat is a ticket inscribed 'Milton'. Below the spout is a trompe l'oeil torn parchment inscribed 'The Figure there is no mistaking/It is the famous Man for breaking/Oh! that instead of Horse & Mare/ He had broken Crockery Ware/Each grateful Potter in a Bumper/ Might drink the Health of Orange Jumper.’ The rim and the sides of the handle are banded in dark maroon
History note: Mrs Henry Jackson, Sheffield, by whom given to her son, Dr Henry Jackson, Croft Cottage, Cambridge in or before 1875, and after 1890 moved to his rooms in Trinity College, by whom given in 1906 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1807
-
1810
John Clarkson, known as 'Orange Jumper' was a horse breaker of Wentworth, employed to carry despatches between York and Wentworth House, the home of Viscount Milton, one of the two successful candidates in the hotly contested Yorkshire election which took place between 20 May and 5 June 1807. The verse was written by the Rev. Mr Fawkes, Vicar of Barmbrough.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellow, pink, red, shades of brown, grey, black, and dark reddish-brown)
ceramic printing colour
Body
white
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1084-1928
Primary reference Number: 71289
Old object number: 923
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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