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Teapot
Factory:
Wedgwood, Josiah
Printer:
Green, Guy
Pale cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware) printed onglaze in black with on one side, The Tea Party , and on the other, The Shepherd.
Pale cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware) printed onglaze in black. Globular with leaf-wrapped spout, double entwined handle with rounded foliate terminals and close-fitting circular cover surmounted by a flower finial. Decorated on one side with 'The Tea Party', showing a fashionable couple seated beside a tea table in a garden attended by a black servant; on the other with 'The Shepherd', and on the cover with two floral sprays.
History note: Purchased from the Misses Kingsland at Croydon in April 1903 for £2.5.0 (45/-); Dr J.W.L. Gaisher, FRS.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.4 cm
Length: 21.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1780
: The pale cream coloured body suggests a date of about 1780.
Made by Josiah Wedgwood's factory and sent to Liverpool to be printed by Guy Green
Decoration
composed of
printing colour
( black.)
Body
Spout
Lead-glaze
Cream-coloured earthenware
Inscription present: and two curved lines impressed
Accession number: C.729 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 11708
Old object number: 1497
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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