IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71296 accession number: C.1090-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The images and text are as follows: (i)To left of handle: 'THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL', above an image of same with a ship in the background, above verse: 'Far from Home across the Sea/To Foreign climes I go./While far away O think on me/And I'll remember you'. (ii)To right of handle: 'THE SAILOR'S RETURN', above an image of same with ship, above verse: 'Now safe returned from dangers past/With joy I hail the shore./And fear no more the tempests blast/Nor Oceans angry roar.' (iii) Under the spout, to the left: a trophy with a lion, an eagle, the Union Jack, the French flag, a shield inscribed 'CRIMEA', and the words, 'MAY THEY EVER BE UNITED. VIVe L'EMPREUR GOD SAVE THE QUEEN'. (iv) Under the spout to the right, in a wreath, the lines: 'England, England, the glorious name/Home of freedom star of fame/Light o'er Ocean widely sent/Empress of the element/Gorgeous sea encircled gem/Of the world's bright diadem/ Nations nations to command/Who but points admiring hand/To thee our own our native land'. object type: Ovoid body tapering slightly to a projecting foot, with cylindrical neck, curved spout and loop handle. Decorated on the body with four transfer-prints over-painted with enamels. The rim is coated with mottled pink lustre and there are squiggles of pink lustre on the body, between the transfers. There are two pink lustre bands round the foot and a pink line runs down the back of the handle. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised foot-rim. object type: White earthenware, transfer-printed in black with text and images, and painted with enamels and pink lustre. title: commemorative jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Billson collection until 1908. Sold at Sotheby’s 21 December 1908 with two other Sunderland jugs, lot 120, for 10 shillings. Bought by Mr S. Fenton for Dr Glaisher, 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/71296 PEOPLE ------------------- sailor SUBJECTS ------------------- Crimean War sailor patriotism ship Union Jack French Tricolor Sailor's Farewell Sailor's Return ship Union Jack French Tricolor Sailor's Farewell Sailor's Return TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: transfer-printed ware category: lustreware category: transfer-printed lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1854 - 1856 creation date earliest: 1854 creation date latest: 1856 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I culture: Crimean War CREATORS -------- maker: Scott Brothers & Co maker: Scott's Southwick Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Sunderland Pottery 19th Century Lustreware Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Metropolitan Magazine Gipsy King and Other Poems Rhymes and Mottoes on Sunderland Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1090_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1090_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1090_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1090_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1090_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1090_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1090_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1090_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1090_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels