IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71308 accession number: C.1098-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Creamware, transfer-printed onglaze in black and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pale purple, and red enamels. The jug has an ovoid body which expands towards the base and towards the rim. It has a curved projecting lip and a loop handle. In an oval medallion on one side is a woman with a serpent wreathed round her head, tramplng on a headless corpse and holding in one hand a dagger, in the other a trident on the spikes of which a head and two hearts are impaled; in the background, a man hanging from a lamp-bracket, above, the title: FRENCH LIBERTY, below the words : ‘ATHEISIM, PERJURY,/REBELLION, TREASON, ANARCHY MURDER, EQUALITY, MADNESS, CRUELTY, INJUSTICE,/TREACHERY, INGRATITUDE, IDLENESS,/FAMINE, NATIONAL & PRIVATE RUIN,/MISERY’. In a medallion on the other side is Britannia holding scales, the cap of Liberty and the Magna Carta, sitting with a sleeping lion beside her on the seashore, to the right a British ship; title: ‘BRITISH LIBERTY’, below, the words: ‘RELIGION, MORALITY,/LOYALTY, OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS,/INDEPENDENCE, PERSONAL SECURITY,/JUSTICE INHERITANCE, PROTECTION,/PROPERTY, INDUSTRY, NATIONAL PROSPERITY,/HAPPINESS’. In an oval frame under the spout are the words ‘WHICH/IS/THE BEST’ object type: Creamware jug transfer-printed with French Liberty contrasted with British Liberty title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Stanley Woolston’s shop, Emmanuel Street, Cambridge; bought by Miss Parsons for 10s.0d. and given by her on 20 August, 1921 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. 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/71308 PEOPLE ------------------- Britannia SUBJECTS ------------------- British Liberty French Liberty British Liberty French Liberty TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1793 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1793 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Liverpool factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Paris, City of Revolution CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Paris, City of Revolution The Robin Simpson Collection of Commemoratives --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1098_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1098_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1098_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1098_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1098_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1098_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1098_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1098_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1098_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_1098_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_1098_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_1098_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_1098_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_1098_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_1098_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_1098_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels