IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71384 accession number: C.1125 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream eathenware slipcast with decoration in relief, and very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze (pearlware), painted in blue, green, yellow puce pink, mauve, and red enamels. The oval pot stands on a shallow footring. The sides curve outwards and then almost vertically to the flat shoulder which has an oval aperture to take the cover with is slightly domed and has a ventilation hole, and a central bud knob. The straight sloping spout is moulded in relief to resemble asparagus heads, , and the wall behind it has seven holes surrounding a central hole to emit the tea. The strap handle is ear-shaped, and has a vertical central ridge and foliage at the junction of the top and bottom with the body. The lower part of the pot has a border of puce pink anthemion motifs with green leaves between them, above which is a broad band of scrolling foliage bearing puce-pink, mauve, and yellow stylized flowers, and green trefoil leaves. Above this is a narrow blue horizontal band and a row of blue dots on the edge of the shoulder, which is decorated with green pointed serrated leaves radiating from the mouth, enclosed by a blue zig-zag line and blue bell flowers in the spaces. The footring is blue. The moulding on the spout is painted in green and mauve, and it has a mauve line round its tip and a mauve-edged rococo 'frill' around its junction with the body. The handle has mauve leaf terminals and lines down its sides. The cover has a blue edge, a border of scrolling green foliage with yellow and puce-pink flowers, and a green and puce-pink knob rising from pointed leaves object type: pearlware teapot with relief decoration painted in polychrome enamels title: tea pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: R.H. Soden Smith FSA (1822-90); 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/71384 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 21.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Green Flower Band Group of Caneware English Dry-bodied Stoneware, Wedgwood and Contemporary Manufacturers 1774-1830 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_1125_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels