IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75950 accession number: C.735-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware, lead-glazed and transfer-printed onglaze in black using the glue bat method. The cylindrical mug has a loop handle. Opposite the handle is a print a man and woman standing together in front of farm buildings. The man has a dog by his side and holds a stick in his right hand and a pig in his left. The woman holds a small child. Turning away from the couple is a vicar. Beside him is a peacock and behind him a church. In front of the figures are sheaves of wheat, apples, pears and baskets of fruit. Beneath the image are the title - ‘The TYTHE PIG’ - and a verse divided into two columns. The first column reads: ‘In Country Village lives a Vicar / Fond – as all are - of Tythes and Liquor; / To Mirth his Ears are seldom shut, / He’ll Crack a Joke, and laugh at smut, / But when he Tythes he gathers in, / True Parson then - no Coin, no Grin; / On Fish, on Flesh, on Bird, on Beast, / Alike lays hold the Chulish Priest.’ The second column reads: ‘Hob’s Wife and sow – as Gossips tell / Both at a time in Pieces fell; / The Parson comes, the Pig he claims, / And the Good Wife with Taunts inflames; / But she, quite Arch, bow’d low and smil’d, / Kept back the Pig, and held the Child; / The Priest look’d gruff, the Wife look’d big, / Z…d Sir! quoth she, no Child, no Pig.’ object type: Lead-glazed creamware transfer-printed in black with ‘The Tythe Pig’ and accompanying verse. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unknown before William Turner, Esq., Purley Chase, Atherstone, Warwickshire; Turner sold to Mr Stoner, London, who then sold for £3 on 14 March 1911 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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/75950 TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer printing TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory maker: Unidentified Liverpool factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 Creamware and Pearlware. The Fifth Exhibition from the Northern Ceramic Society --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_735_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_735_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_735_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_735_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_735_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_735_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_735_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels