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Pepper pot: C.181-1932

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

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Description

White salt-glazed stoneware painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, rose-pink, red and black enamels

Off-white stoneware, moulded, pierced, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, rose-pink, red, and black enamels. The caster is vase-shaped with a spreading foot, a pierced domed top, and a small finial of the same shape. The underside of the foot has a round central hole to admit the pepper or sugar. There are bands of uncoloured gadrooning round the edge of the foot, the shoulder, and a short distance below the projecting edge of the domed top (which is not removable). The underside and the exterior above and below the shoulder have a turquoise ground. The area below the shoulder is decorated with pink roses and other flowers and foliage on a wavy stem. The area above the shoulder has upward pointing lappet-like outlines filled by a yellow and pink half-flower and three leaves. Between the points there is a pink and blue plant motif. Above the top band of gadrooning there is a narrow red border of circles enclosing dots between horizontal bands. The projection below the cover is turquoise with pink and green half-flowers alternating with yellow half leaves. Seven of the holes in the top are outlined in pink and black, and the finial is turquoise.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth

Legal notes

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 6.4 cm
Height: 15.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
Circa 1755 CE - 1770 CE

Note

This was accessioned as a pepper pot, but the holes seem large enough to emit a whole pepper corn, and if used for ground pepper would surely have had everyone at the table sneezing. On the other hand, the pot seems rather small for a sugar caster.

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, rose-pink, red, and black)
Foot Diameter 4 cm
Top

Materials used in production

Salt-glaze
Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Off-white stoneware, moulded, pierced, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, rose-pink, red, and black enamels
Salt-glazing

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.181-1932
Primary reference Number: 197694
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 11 March 2014 Updated: Friday 15 November 2019 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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