IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71622 accession number: C.1225-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Thrown stoneware jug with bulbous body, short bottle neck and small loop handle, covered with mud-brown slip and salt-glazed. The body, which leans backwards, is decorated under the slip with horizontal scoring punctuated by small raised points in the clay, which gives the jug has a gourd-like appearance. The neck has a projecting ring, above which it is scored to suggest a screw thread. The glaze is very light, giving a matt finish. The underside is concave, speckled in brown and unglazed, object type: Salt-glazed stoneware jug with tool-marked and modelled surface. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Sotheby's sale, 'Extensive collection of Martin ware; old English furniture : the whole remaining stock of finished pieces of the Martin factory, the property of R.W. Martin Esq. (deceased), 24 October 1924, lot 33, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, who paid £1 – 5 shillings for the lot, which comprised four bottles. 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/71622 PEOPLE ------------------- Martin, Robert Wallace Martin, Edwin Martin, Walter Lambeth School of Art SUBJECTS ------------------- gourd gourd TECHNIQUES ---------- Thrown stoneware jug with applied modelled handle, decorated with horizontal scoring punctuated by small raised points in the clay, covered with mud-brown slip and salt-glazed. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1895 - 1895 creation date earliest: 1895 creation date latest: 1895 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Martin Brothers DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 14 dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.1 dimension: Height units: in value: 7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Extensive collection of Martin ware; old English furniture, 24th October 1924 The Martin Brothers, Potters English Art Pottery 1865-1915 A Catalogue of Martinware formed by Mr F.J. Nettleford, together with a short history of the firm of R. W. Martin and Brothers of Southall Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1225_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1225_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1225_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1225_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1225_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1225_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1225_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1225_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1225_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels