IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75953 accession number: C.738-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware covered in a clear lead glaze, transfer-printed onglaze in brown and painted overglaze in pink, green, yellow, blue, black, pink and orange-red enamels. The cylindrical mug has a loop handle. Transfer-printed in front with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters. In the centre is a knitting machine surrounded by a scroll border, which sprouts sprays of leaves and flowers at the corners, with the Company motto – ‘SPEED, STRENGTH AND TRUTH UNITED’ – on a ribbon below. To the left is a man in an academic cap and gown; he points to the knitting machine with his right hand. To the right is a woman in a dress and a bonnet; she points to the inscription with her left hand. The print is signed below the motto on the left ‘J Aynsley’ and on the right ‘Lane end’. The print is coloured with enamels. object type: Lead-glazed creamware transfer-printed in brown with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters and painted in enamels. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before sold by J. Stand and Sons, South Molton Street, London, on 6 May 1926 for £4.10 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/75953 PEOPLE ------------------- The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- transfer printing TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: transfer-printed ware DATING ------ creation date: 1788 - 1805 creation date earliest: 1788 creation date latest: 1805 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Aynsley, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Longton Potters 1700-1865 Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 English Transfer-Printed Pottery and Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_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_738_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels