IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71444 accession number: C.1166-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The images and text in the reserves, each contained within curved sprays of flowers and foliage, are as follows: (i) a stippled bust portrait of Sir Francis Burdett with, below on a label: 'The determined enemy of corruption & the/constitutional friend of his SOVEREIGN'. (ii) 'Sir FRANCIS BURDETT/Bart. M.P./Committed to the Tower/April, 6th. 1810/by the House of Commons for firmly/and disinterestedly asserting/the legal rights of the/British People'. object type: Jug with bulbous body, cylindrical neck, curved lip and angular handle. Decorated over-glaze on the outside with silver resist-lustre decoration and a large oval reserve on either side, each containing a red-brown transfer print. The lustre decoration includes stylized wavy sprays of foliage on the body and handle, and a repeating zig-zag with groups of three dots at the points on the neck. The rim is covered in silver lustre The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised foot-rim. object type: White earthenware, glazed, resist-lustred and transfer-printed in red-brown. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before Sotheby's, 14 March 1911, lot 259; purchased by S. Fenton for £2 for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/71444 PEOPLE ------------------- Jones, Gale Burdett, Francis, Sir SUBJECTS ------------------- electoral reform CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: lustreware category: resist lustreware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified English pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge A Burdett Beaker Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 19th Century Lustreware Illustrated Guide to British Jugs : from mediaeval times to the twentieth century Creamware and Pearlware. The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1166_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_1166_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_1166_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_1166_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_1166_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_1166_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_1166_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_1166_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels