IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75313 accession number: C.500 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 October 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, thrown in two parts, with applied ears, muzzle, chain, tail, genitals, and front legs and rear feet, covered in rough clay chippings to simulate fur, and decorated with dark brown slip details before salt-glazing. The bear has a slightly figure-of-eight shaped body with a tall cylindrical neck, long front legs, and just feet at the back. The head has a four link chain threaded through a hole on the top of the muzzle, which also has two irregularly-shaped oblong holes in its sides. The neck is decorated with nineteen large spots of brown slip, and there are smaller spots around the junction of the muzzle and head, and a line on the top of each ear. The eyes are formed by circles of clay filled in with brown slip. object type: white salt-glazed stoneware bear with applied shredded clay fur and details in brown slip title: bear jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London from whom bought for ? £5.0.0. about 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge; he was not sure if he might not have asked Fenton to buy it for him on commission from Sotheby's 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/75313 SUBJECTS ------------------- bear bear TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing 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: Height units: cm value: 24.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_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_500_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels