IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131316 accession number: C.32 & A-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Squat, globular teapot with a broad up-tilted spout and domed cover with shallow cup-shaped knob. Decorated with flags and inscriptions. On one side are two flags, the Union Jack and the French Tricoleur, with the words 'LIBERTY AND FREEDOM' on a ribbon below; around these are the flags of Canada, New Zealand, Newfoundland, India, France, and Australia, each labelled in small capital letters. On the other side are the same two flags and over them an oval panel inscribed ‘WAR AGAINST HITLERISM’/This Souvenir Teapot was made for/DYSON & HORSFALL of PRESTON to replace/ALUMINIUM STOCKS taken over for/ALLIED ARMAMENTS, 1939'; below is a ribbon inscribed 'THAT RIGHT SHALL PREVAIL' and around these are the flags of France Eastern Colonies, New Zealand, Canada, France, Union of South Africa and Australia, labelled in small capitals. There are similarly labelled flags of South Africa (under the handle), and India, France Western Colonies and Newfoundland (on the spout). There are thin blue bands around the rim, alternating with yellow bands around the widest part of the body, down the central ridge of the handle, and around the cover knob; the cover also has a yellow band set in from the edge. The underside is recessed and glazed. object type: Cream earthenware, transfer-printed in black, blue, green, yellow, and red, and banded in blue and yellow enamels. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: private collection 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/131316 PEOPLE ------------------- Hitler, Adolf (1933-45) SUBJECTS ------------------- war World War II flag flag TECHNIQUES ---------- slip cast earthenware, glazed, printed and painted in enamels slip casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Crown Ducal DATING ------ creation date: 1939 - 1939 creation date earliest: 1939 creation date latest: 1939 culture: 20th Century, second quarter culture: George VI CREATORS -------- maker: A.G. Richardson & Co. Ltd DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14 CITATIONS -------- An Anthology of British Teapots Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ---