IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75951 accession number: C.736-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale creamcoloured earthenware covered with a clear lead-glaze and transfer-printed overglaze in red, using the glue bat method. The wheel-thrown bulbous jug has a loop handle and a sparrow’s beak lip. It is printed on one side with an image bearing the title ‘THE APOTHEOSIS OF BONAPARTE’. This image represents John Bull, kneeling and saying ‘AMEN’ opposite a gibbet which Napoleon hangs. Napoleon has a large sword and hat and is labelled ‘TYRANT’. Against the gibbet leans a ladder with inscriptions on the rungs: (top to bottom) ‘Revenge’; ‘Madrid Massacre’; ‘Hanover Pillaged’; ‘Holland Ruined’; ‘Switzerland enslaved’; 'Jaffa Soup 300 Sick’; ‘El Arish 5000 Turks’; ‘Alexandria Massacre’; ‘In gratitude to Barras’. Beneath the gibbet is a crowd of figures with inscriptions describing their cries: (left to right) ‘Ah Mynheer der Gran Bonaparte haf make oon big Mistook about being God in dis Earth’; ‘Enemy ov la Suisse ov Tell A boys Reding & la libbertay’; ‘Oh boderation long life to Ireland I tought we would catch the tief he wanted to palaver me’; ‘Dat be ton plagues of Yarmany gone in a Kick Vid a great big Sword dat I wich dey giv me for I want it by by’; 'Ala lantern Ala lantern Vive la France A bas le Corsican et tous meurtrier et scelerets Vive Johnny Bull’. Printed on the other side of the jug is an image entitled ‘A SPANISH PATRIOT’, which represents a British sailor handing a scroll labelled ‘COMMERCE’ to a Spanish soldier with a ribbon inscribed ‘LONG LIVE FERDINAND VII’. object type: Creamware lead-glazed and transfer-printed in red. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before Mary Casey, 29B Lincolns Inn Fields; Mary Casey sold for £2.5 on 18 May 1910 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/75951 PEOPLE ------------------- Bonaparte, Napoléon Bull, John TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1803 - 1803 creation date earliest: 1803 creation date latest: 1803 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified English pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Napoleon and the Invasion of England: The Story of the Great Terror Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 Creamware and Pearlware. 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