IDENTIFIERS
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id:	32847
accession number:	C.2 & A-1918

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, with moulded relief decoration, and painted underglaze in blue. The globular teapot is moulded with two rococo scroll-edged panels reserved on a pleated ground, with simple loop handle and facetted curved spout. The domed cover is moulded with ribs, and surmounted by a conical finial. The teapot is painted on one side with a figure fishing below a willow tree, the reverse with a figure fishing from a sampan, and a pagoda on an island. The shoulders, spout and handle are painted with trailing flower flower sprays, an insect below the spout. The mis-matched cover has a lambrequin border.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, painted underglaze with blue Chinese decoration.
title:	teapot

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Ralph Griffin
creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32847

PEOPLE
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man

SUBJECTS
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sampan
insect
willow
flowers
fishing
pagoda
island
sampan
insect
willow
flowers
fishing
pagoda
island



TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 16



CITATIONS
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Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790
British Teapots and Tea Drinking
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