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Jug: C.1131-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Bill, Simpson & Co.

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Description

White earthenware, transer-printed underglaze in blue, and painted in green, yellow, and red enamels with Chinoiserie scenes and floral borders.

White earthenware, transer-printed underglaze in blue, and painted in green, yellow, and red enamels with 'The Mongol Huntsman pattern. Ovoid body with short cylindrical neck, projecting lip, and strap handle of shallow D section, standing on a footring. To the right of the handle there are two figures seated under a tree; next to them is a panel with an inverted scalloped edge enclosing a figure in a building, and a child with standing father and seated mother beneath three flowers. Below the spout there is a tall structure with a little boy and a woman standing on the left, and on the right, a table bearing a vase of flowers, a scroll and a bowl, it with a woman beside it. Further to the right is a similarly-shaped medallion containing three men and a child with a cat or dog, and a flying bird. Further to the right is a small boy below two large flowers with a bird flying overhead. Round the interior and exterior of the neck and spout there is a border of stylized flowers and scrolls, and down the back of the handle, a spray of thee blue flowers with pairs of red buds between them.

Notes

History note: Bought at Sharpe's stall in the Market Place at Cambridge on 27 March, 1926 for 17s 6d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

  • Longton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, second quarter#
George IV
Circa 1825 CE - 1830 CE

School or Style

Chinoiserie

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: wording is surrounded by a rectangular blue line. The L is in outline and projects over the lower outline

  • Text: Opaque China/BS & Co/L
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Transfer-printe underglaze in blue
  • Type: Factory mark

Inscription present: half of an octagonal label with a blue edge on the upper sides

  • Text: 4842/Brightly coloured/milk jug with chn'ese design marked/B.S. & Co. b. in Cam-/bridge March 27 1926
  • Location: On base above mark
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1131-1928
Primary reference Number: 71392
Old object number: 4842
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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