{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"5920"},"subclassification":{"label":"Sub-classification","value":"English Earthenware"},"markings":{"label":"Markings","value":"Transfer printed Arctic Scenery on an igloo against a glacier, flanked by harpoons and a standing figure"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"The Barbara and James Moscovich Collection of Canadian Historical China"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"G13.15.47"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Gravy boat with a a grey transfer-print rom the \"Arctic Scenery\" series. Image depicts landscape with fishing, igloos and figures in a boatArctic SceneryThe Arctic series represents \u201ca glorious perversion of geography,\" as one 1844 writer describes them in reference to the tropical animal border decoration encircling wintery scenes of sledging, hunting and ice huts series. Though back stamped with a pattern name the pottery manufacturer remains unknown. The transfer prints on these pieces were adapted as composites from engravings of Edward Parry's Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific published in 1821 and Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, published in 1824. There were numerous printed illustrations of Arctic expeditions because Arctic explorers became heroes on both sides of the Atlantic but why Edward Parry\u2019s journal was selected to be printed on tableware is unclear.  The incongruous African animals around the border are from William Jardine\u2019s The Naturalist\u2019s Library, a series of colour illustrated booklets printed between 1833 - 43."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Earthenware with grey transfer print from the \u201cArctic Scenery\u201d series, inspired by William Parry (1790\u20131855), Journal of a Second Voyage of the Discovery of a Northwest Passage, 1824"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G13.15.47 view 2","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/24011/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"2400","pixelWidth":"3000","mediaID":"24011"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G13.15.47 (2)","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/24012/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"2400","pixelWidth":"3000","mediaID":"24012"},{"mediaRenditionNumber":"G13.15.47 mark","publicAccess":"true","mediaImageURL":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/24013/full","rank":"0","pixelHeight":"2400","pixelWidth":"3000","mediaID":"24013"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Gravy Boat with an Arctic Landscape"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"European Ceramics"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":"Unknown Artist"},"rels":{"label":"Relations","value":"[]"},"subclassification2":{"label":"Sub-classification 2","value":""},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/24012/full"},"subclassification3":{"label":"Sub-classification 3","value":""},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["19th and early 20th Century Ceramics","Ceramics for the Canadian Market"]},"culture":{"label":"Culture","value":"English"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"n.d"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"183360"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Overall: 4 5/16 × 7 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (11 × 18.6 × 8.8 cm)"}}]}