IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140211 accession number: C.3094 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 18 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, glazed and painted in polychrome enamels. The globular pot has a spout in the form of a bird's head, an elaborately scrolled handle, and a flat cover with a knob in the form of a cherry. The two sides are each painted with a different design comprising an exotic bird, a group of fruit, a butterfly, and other insects. On the curved shoulder there is a border of Chinese diaper and flowers, and round the neck, a narrow border of scrolls. The spout is decorated with a floral spray. The edge of the foot is encircled by a green band. The cover is decorated with grapes and flowers. The glaze has many speckles. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson’s, London, 5 December 1919, lot 140; bought by Mr Stoner for £11 11s.0d.; bought from him for £16 on 9 December 1919 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140211 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird butterfly bird butterfly TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, glazed and painted in polychrome enamels glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector Longton Hall Porcelain William Littler at Longton Hall There is Still Life at Longton Hall ---