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Railway Jug
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
White earthenware, thrown, and transfer-printed in black under blue tinted lead-glaze. The jug has an ovoid body with slightly projecting recessed base, and a harp-shaped strap handle of D-section. The exterior is decorated with a railway train travelling to the right through a landscape with bushes and fences below it, and hills, trees, and a village church with a spire above it. The locomotive, named very faintly, 'THE NOVELTY' is preceded by a tender in which is a man and a barrel. Behind the locomotive there is an open truck laden with barrels, a truck of cattle, a truck of pigs, and an open passenger carriage filled with men and one woman. On the exterior and interior of the neck and lip there are borders flowers and scrolls with scalloped upper edges reserved in a narrow black ground. On the base within a scrolled frame is the inscription 'Liverpool/ Manchester/Railway transfer-printed in black
History note: Mr Hyam, 158 Brompton Road, London, SW, from whom purchased on June 6, 1911 for £5 with one other jug and three mugs by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.8 cm
Width: 19 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, second quarter#
William IV
Victoria I
Circa
1830
CE
-
1840
CE
Attribution to Staffordshire is uncertain
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
Body
blue-tinted
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Inscription present: inscribed within a roughly oval scrolled panel
Inscription present: half of an octagonal label with a red line on five sides
Accession number: C.1135-1928
Primary reference Number: 71399
Old object number: 3405
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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