IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71454
accession number:	C.1172 & A-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Teapot and lid entirely covered in silver lustre. The pot has an oval body, the sides divided into three lobes on either side, moulded with gadroons surrounding reserve panels. The spout is  in the form of swan’s neck, the high loop handle has an eagle’s head as thumb piece, the neck is galleried. The cover is domed, with a central, flattened knob and a deep interior rim which sits into the pot. The underside is flat and partly lustred, with a narrow foot-rim.
object type: Dark red-grey earthenware, moulded and dipped in silver (platinum) lustre.
title:	teapot and cover

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Mr Woolston of Hyde Park Corner, Cambridge on June 29, 1908, for 26/-   (one pound six shillings),   by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71454





TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, moulded and dipped in lustre.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: lustreware

DATING
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creation date:	1820 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 30.5



CITATIONS
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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
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