IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71230 accession number: C.1051 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 3 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark cream earthenware, the body thrown, with an applied spout, and handle with press-moulded terminals, lead-glazed and painted in reddish-brown and black enamels, and gilt on the edges (mostly worn away). The pot has a bulbous oval body with a slightly projecting lower edge, a curved upward tilting spout with two curved lines incised on each side, and a double entwined handle with upper and lower flower and leaf terminals. The edge of the base and the mouth are encircled by a rouletted band of closely-set short lines. There are twenty-five holes in an asymmetrical arrangement in the wall behind the spout. The circular cover is very slightly convex with a rouletted edge to match the pot, and has a knob with capstan-shaped lower part and a stepped and domed top with a central boss. On each side of the pot there is an oval panel with a scalloped and scrolled edge enclosing the inscription 'Prosperity to the/Worthey Town /of Totnes', painted in black. Below the handle there is a scalloped oval panel enclosing the date '1768', and under the spout, a circular medallion enclosing the initials 'DB'. The rest of the surface of the pot and its cover are decorated overall with a reddish-brown and black scale or pebbled pattern. The handle, spout and knob are reddish-brown, and the rouletted edges bear traces of gilding. object type: dark cream earthenware, lead-glazed, and painted in reddish-brown and black enamel, and inscribed ‘Prosperity to the Worthey Town of Totnes’, initialled 'DB' and dated '1768' title: punch pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stewart Acton, Brighton from whom purchased on 13 September 1924 for £7.10s.0d. 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/71230 PEOPLE ------------------- Barstowe, Daniel TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Indio Pottery maker: Unidentified Yorkshire or Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 39.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Pots about People, Named and Dated Creamware and Pearlware 1760-1820 title: Variations on Ceramic Themes, Big is Beautiful? CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Pots about People, Named and Dated Creamware and Pearlware 1760-1820 Variations on Ceramic Themes: Big is Beautiful? Barbarity in a Teacup? 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