IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73047
accession number:	C.2047-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Grey stoneware, thrown, with incised and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple and salt-glazed. The jug has a globular body with a cylindrical neck and a loop handle with two holes on the top for the attachment of a mount. The circular base is slightly concave underneath. On the front is an applied medallion with the cypher GR in blue for George I or George II, with above, a crown flanked by two birds, and below, a winged cherub's head. On either side of it round the widest part of the body are broad bands of blue and grey chequer pattern. Above and below are bands of formal flowers and tendrils on continuous wavy stems reserved in a blue ground, The neck is rilled horizontally and painted overall in manganese-purple.
object type: grey stoneware with incised and applied relief decoration coloured in manganese-purple and cobalt-blue, and salt-glazed: wide horizontal bands of floriated scrolls and chequer pattern, broken on the front by an applied medallion containing the initials GR
title:	jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Christie's, 12 February, 1909, part of lot 101, the property of a lady; sold for £10.10s.0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73047

PEOPLE
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George I (1714-27)
George II (1727-60)

SUBJECTS
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drinking
cipher
crown
bird
cipher
crown
bird



CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: salt-glazed stoneware
category: German stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1714 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1714
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	George I
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 31

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 24.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Steinzeug
German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History
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