IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75982 accession number: C.757-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze painted in sage green, yellow, orange, dark brown, and black enamels. The mug is cylindrical with a recessed base, and a loop handle of shallow D-section with a longitudinal indentation on either side of its convex middle. On the base there is a central impressed small circle surrounded by a larger circle. On the front, opposite to the handle, there is a large stook of corn with a rake and a scythe projecting from it on the right and left respectively, and below them a sickle and a fork. To the left is an upright rake with a pair of shears below, and an axe above, and further to the left, an upright fork and a pitchfork. On the right of the stook of corn, there is a harrow with a flail above, and a mallet (?), and further to the right, an upright spade and a pitchfork, with above, aa black oval object with a handle. Below the implements there is a narrow brown horizontal band and at the top there is narrow horizontal band and a wider band below the rim. The exterior of the handle is decoration with eleven small heart-shaped motifs with a vertical stroke below. object type: Cream earthenware, with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in enamels with a sheaf of corn and agricultural implements title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold by an unidentified vendor in High Wycombe for 23s. 6d. to Stanley Woolston, a Cambridge dealer; sold by him on 2 February 1917 for 30s. 0d. (£1.10s.0d.) 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/75982 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_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_757_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels