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Factory: Wedgwood
Cream-coloured earthenware with Rockingham glaze and gilt decoration on the rims, handle and spout. Shape 159 or `Rockingham' shape. Squat piriform body with loop handle and slightly curved spout; convex cover (A) with a deep cylindrical flange fitting inside the body, and a widow finial. Round the rim of the pot and the edge of the cover there are two horizontal bands, and a scalloped line with groups of three balls on stems depending from it. There are sprays of stylised leaves on both sides of the spout, and between them, six graduated dots with tapering strokes above and below. The tip of the spout is encircled by a line. On the back of the handle there is a tapering stroke with a dot and three strokes above, and, on each side of the handle, a line.
History note: Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve), Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Purchased with the J. R. V. Smyth Fund
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 14.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1984-10-22) by Eve, Joan
Circa 1850 - 1900
Rockingham glaze, named after the factory at Swinton, Yorkshire, which developed it in the late 18th century, was coloured with manganese. It was introduced no later than 1823 initially for teapots only, and continued in use until 1941 when it was withdrawn because of wartime restrictions on ceramic manufacture.
Exterior composed of gilt ( on the rims, handle and spout)
'Rockingham glaze'
Cream-coloured earthenware
Slip-casting : Cream-coloured earthenware with 'Rockingham' glaze and gilt decoration on the rims, handle and spout.
Inscription present: or '86'
Accession number: C.865 & A-1984
Primary reference Number: 12137
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/12137 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:51:02
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