IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71712 accession number: C.1275 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 15 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Castleford-type teapot with ovoid body, a short oval galleried neck with diamond shaped rim and an S curved spout. Reeded loop handle, squared at the top to form a thumb-rest. Smear glazed inside and outside. The sides of the body, formed with ten flat panels above a slightly concave ribbon, are translucent. The base ribbon is decorated with curving, upstanding leaves. On one central panel two winged figures, one carrying a staff, hold a mirror above a naked figure which rests on a shield and holds a cornucopia. On the other, six peasants wearing caps are gathered around a barrel, one holds a book, another plays bag-pipes. On either side of each central scene is a narrower panel with a vertical ivy spray. On the shoulder, stylised acanthus hang down from the gallery, which is moulded and cut to a design of repeating square diamonds.The cover is also formed of ten panels; it is domed, with radiating curved leaves beneath a flower finial, and has two vent holes. The interior has a domed strainer at base of the spout. The underside is unglazed and slightly recessed, giving a narrow foot-rim. object type: White felspathic stoneware teapot and cover with moulded body and applied reliefs, smear glazed. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought on 30 June 1905 from Mr Phillips of Hitchin by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, price 12/6d (twelve shillings and sixpence) 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/71712 TECHNIQUES ---------- press moulded white felspathic stoneware, sprig decorated and smear-glazed press moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: smear-glazed stoneware category: sprigged stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory maker: Chetham & Woolley CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge An Anthology of British Teapots Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Castleford Pottery and its wares 1790-1821 : a new survey Chetham & Woolley Stonewares 1793-1821 Illustrated Dictionary of British Pottery and Porcelain Directory of British Teapots British Teapots and Tea Drinking Castleford Pottery 1790-1821 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_1275_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/aa4/mid_C_1275_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/aa4/C_1275_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/aa4/preview_C_1275_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/aa4/C_1275_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/aa4/mid_C_1275_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/aa4/C_1275_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/aa4/preview_C_1275_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels