IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72835 accession number: C.1902 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 2 December 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale red earthenware, thrown, with applied moulded handle and spout, coated with white slip, decorated with incising, and lead-glazed yellow with splashing in brown. The body of the pot is of a bulbous pear-shape with a short cylindrical neck, a sloping octagonal handle joined to the body by a pierced openwork band, and a scrolled handle. The circular slightly domed cover has a circular stepped knob, and a flange on the underside which fits inside the neck of the pot. The lower part of the pot is decorated with two bands of formal leaves with foliated scrolls between them. On the upper part there is a band of small joined scrolls, with below them on one side, the date and initials '1778 MS'. A band of smaller formal leaves encircls the neck.The sides and back of the handle are decorated with closelyset short horizontal lines, and the facets of the spout are striped. The cover has a circle of stylized leaves radiating from pairs of concentric circles around the knob and the outer edge has two sets of concentric circles. The details of the decoration are almost obscured by the brown splashes in the glaze. object type: red earthenware coated in white slip with incised plant decoration under yellow and brown lead-glazes, and the date and initials '1778 M S' title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom bought in September 1903 by 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/72835 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1778 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1778 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Schläfli Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 30 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Albliger Geschirr Berner Bauernkeramik Gefässkeramik und Hafnerei in der Frühen Neuzeit im Kanton Bern Geschirr für Stadt und Land. Berner Töpferei seit dem 16. 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