IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71450 accession number: C.1171 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tea kettle and lid entirely covered in silver lustre. The pot has a depressed globular body, high foot with a wavy rim, curved spout and a scroll handle with straight bobbin hand-piece across the top. The cover is domed, with a central, flattened knob and a deep interior rim which sits into the pot. The underside is recessed and lustred. object type: Red earthenware, thrown and moulded and dipped in silver (platinum) lustre. title: tea kettle and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr. S. J. Freeman at Cambridge, about 1900, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr Freeman had purchased it in the neighbourhood. 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71450 CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, first half DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 19th Century Lustreware Illustrated Guide to British Jugs : from mediaeval times to the twentieth century Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries British Teapots and Tea Drinking --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_1171_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_1171_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_1171_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_1171_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_1171_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_1171_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_1171_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_1171_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels