IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75302 accession number: C.499 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 October 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White stoneware, thrown in two parts with applied ears, muzzle, and limbs, covered with coarse shreds of clay to imitate fur, decorated with dark brown slip details, and salt-glazed. The bear is sitting upright holding a functional coiling whistle in its forepaws. It has a tubby body and a separate head which serves as a cup. In its snout it has a salt-glazed stoneware ring attached by a piece of metal wire. Brown slip has beeen applied in short stripes on the paws, and muzzle, and in spots on the whistle, round the lower part of the head, and on the ears. The eyes are formed by two circles of white clay with a brown slip spot in the centre and two short brown lines above. object type: white salt-glazed stoneware container in the form of a bear with furof applied shreds of clay, and details applied in brown slip title: bear jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 24 June 1921, lot 59; sold to Mack for £4.4s. bidding on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, who fetched it to Cambridge on 6 July 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/75302 SUBJECTS ------------------- bear bear CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_499_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_499_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels