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Tea caddy: C.1541-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese landscapes

Buff earthenware, slab built, and very heavy, tin-glazed on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue. Square with tall sides and flat top with a central replacement neck to take cover, now missing. The top and bottom edges are bevelled. The top is decorated with a fleur-de-lys in each corner and with four floral sprays. On the bevelled edge there is a border of white scrolls reserved in a blue ground which also runs down each angle of the sides. Two adjacent sides are decorated with a Chinese landscape and two with Chinese garden scenes.

Notes

History note: Mr Stewart Acton, Brighton from whom purchased for £2 on 7 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 9.4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George II
George III
Circa 1750 CE - Circa 1760 CE

School or Style

Chinoiserie

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1541-1928
Primary reference Number: 72187
Old object number: 4006

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 5 March 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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