IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81583 accession number: C.9-2002 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, glazed, and painted in bluish-green, green, dark pink, and black enamels. Cylindrical with a recessed base, a loop handle with vertical rib, and a lower end which tapers to a point on the side of the body. The sides are decorated with a sample pattern. On the front is a three-chimney house and garden surrounded by a hedge, with gates at the front. On each side of it there are two pot plants, three pyramidal trees, two hearts pierced by an arrow, a floral sprig, and two cockerels, one above the other. Above the house is a verse, painted in black except for the first letter of each line which is dark pink: A little health a little wealth A little house with freedom And at the end a little friend With little cause to need him Around the top there is a border of paired dark pink and green leaves. The rim, and the rib down the handle are outlined in bluish-green. object type: White earthenware mug, painted in polychrome enamels with a sampler pattern. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Sotheby's Gleneagles, 27 August, 2002, Jewels, Silver and Wemyss Pottery, p. 26, lot 406 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81583 SUBJECTS ------------------- sampler heart arrow cockerels floral spray house garden sampler heart arrow cockerels floral spray house garden CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1882 - 1930 creation date earliest: 1882 creation date latest: 1930 culture: 19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Robert Heron & Son DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter value: 11.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.2 CITATIONS -------- Jewels, Silver and Wemyss Pottery Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ---