IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73926 accession number: C.27 & A-D-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, with incised mouth and inscription, tin-glazed white and painted in bluish-grey. The stylised pig is made in two parts: body, and head, which is attached by means of a projection which latches into a hole at the top of the rim of the body. On the top of the body next to the junction with the head is the inscription 'wunt be druv'. The pig is painted all over with circles, ovals, hearts, spots and squiggles, and with two large oval shapes on the ears. The pig is accompanied by a red cardboard rectangular box and cover (C.27B & C-1996), with a white label on the top, printed in black with a line border enclosing an image of the pig and the inscription 'The Sussex Pig/RYE POTTERY/RYE SUSSEX ENGLAND'. Inside the box is a folding label of the same design with an inscription (C.27D-1996) object type: tin-glazed earthenware flask, in the shape of a Sussex pig, painted in bluish-grey. title: flask in the shape of a pig NOTES ----- type: history note value: New Century Antiques, Kensington Church Street, London, W. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73926 TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, with incised mouth and inscription, tin-glazed white and painted in bluish-grey. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1953 - 1970 creation date earliest: 1953 creation date latest: 1970 culture: 20th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Rye Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 14.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.5 CITATIONS -------- Sussex Pottery Sussex Pigs Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Symbolic Pig --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27_20_26_20A_1996_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_27_20_26_20A_1996_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27B_1996_285_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_27B_1996_285_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_27B_1996_285_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_27B_1996_285_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels