15929996950001312637261000Standard Recordobject-77072170206270903317017920130001702062268047fitz-onlineadlib-object-77072https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77072610c1cd1-fec7-3ef5-8dab-c3e9d1e72d926referenceterm-108657adlib-term-108657c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808lead-glazed earthenwarereferenceterm-113184adlib-term-11318425fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043J. W. L. GlaisherDecorationgreenish-yellowreferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingDecoratonreferenceterm-26908adlib-term-2690893db4eba-7855-3a51-a5b6-3c0d8390f722incisingApplied ArtsRed earthenware, with incised decoration under greenish-yellow lead glaze. Barrel-shaped with a depression in the top. Decorated with impressions of cords and incised ornament consisting of a pheon, a cross and the words 'HIS MAJESTY'S BARREL 1861'.GL.C.47-19281accession numberGL.C.47-192877072priref77072old object number4879urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77072https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77072on sideincisedHIS MAJESTY'S BARREL 1861inscriptionreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumDr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequestreferenceagent-152564adlib-agent-152564c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr192819281928-12-07bequeathedthe Glaisher Collection of ceramics was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher's death1861CE1861dated1861potteryreferenceagent-161730adlib-agent-161730ba7c78e0-1e3c-31ed-8843-ce0131b6dedfSibley's Potterypotterreferenceagent-200615adlib-agent-200615782d5721-8481-39f7-af48-f9a362272cfcSibley, RobertThis barrel is reputed to be one of the last pieces made at Robert Sibley's pottery in Ely. He had taken it over after his father's death in 1839, and continued to run it until about 1864. Sibley died in 1870, and after that date there were no potter's in Ely. The pheon sign on the barrel was the badge of an eccentric poet and toper, Richard Ramsey Fielder, MA (1812-86) (Jesus College, Cambridge, BA 1848; MA 1851), who lived at the Lord Nelson inn, known as the 'Five Miles from Anywhere: No Hurry', and called himself 'The King of Upware. The pub was a favourite haunt of Cambridge undergraduates in the 1850s and 1860s. Fielder later moved to live at the Cutter Inn at Ely. In 1871 when Dr J.W.L. Glaisher graduated as 2nd Wrangler in the mathematical tripos, Fielder sent him two poems on a sheet entitled 'Cambridge Lyrics. By "His Majesty the King of Upware"' which he had had printed in 1864. At the bottom he drew his pheon sign in black ink, and on the back made a drawing and notes on Saturn's double rings. Glaisher kept this and after he purchased the barrel in 1903, kept the sheetin an envelope beside his catalogue entry for it. Fielder died at Folkestone in 1886 leaving a widow, Eliza Ann Fielder, who died in 1892.referenceterm-106851adlib-term-106851e155f998-1e0b-3f2a-851c-24f44d05dd5919th Century, Mid#referenceterm-120127adlib-term-120127ee2ddbd4-503c-30f5-8cf9-3c2d121bd315Victoria Ireferenceterm-106571adlib-term-106571dd17216b-a55b-3f78-8a44-d97dedd93e68literalEnglandEnglandcountryliteralCambridgeshireCambridgeshireregionElyreddish-brownreferenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwareHeightcm16.5referencemedia-49255adlib-media-492552e50e209-7cdd-32a7-a1ac-accbf99dd81ejpegaa/aa7/GL_C_47_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels740widthpixels57016162470877181imagejpegaa/aa7/mid_GL_C_47_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels649widthpixels50016162470877181imagejpegaa/aa7/GL_C_47_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels740widthpixels57016162470877181imagejpegaa/aa7/preview_GL_C_47_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels325widthpixels25016162470877181image0media
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imagereferenceterm-89511adlib-term-89511eccb0154-ed2a-3c27-af35-364f944b07a9barrel (container)history noteRichard Ramsey Fielder, MA (1812-86).; Mr King; John Jennings, antique dealer of 5 Camel Corner, Rous Road, Newmarket from whom purchased on 20 September 1903, for £2.17.6 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridgereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. Vol. I, p. 9, no. 47p. 9referencepublication-1031adlib-publication-1031a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55edCatalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridgereferencepublication-200003207adlib-publication-20000320749685817-e9fd-3cec-8f9e-e51db535fca3'A Tale of Two Sibleys': ceramic counter narratives, globalization, individuality and the last century of the Ely pottery industry c. 1770-1880Ref. pp. 235-9, for information about Fielder235-0referencepublication-3873adlib-publication-3873e13b46b3-7333-3574-a53a-3ca634c4656fThe Cambridge, Ely, and King's Lynn Road. The Great Fenland Highwayreferenceterm-89511adlib-term-89511eccb0154-ed2a-3c27-af35-364f944b07a9barrel (container)barrel (container)earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under greenish-yellow lead glazereferenceterm-120082adlib-term-120082ea83ed85-6b07-3e7e-83fc-440cfda22f7ethrowingreferenceterm-120058adlib-term-1200589e43c4bc-1f48-3a76-b4ea-7075449f5addslip-coatingobject
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