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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Dry-bodied red stoneware press-moulded with Chinoiserie decoration
Red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded. The pot has a hexagonal body with a sloping shoulder and raised rim, an applied upward curving spout and an ear-shaped handle with projecting thumb rests. The hexagonal cover is slightly domed, and has a depressed ball knob, a ventilation hole, and a flange which fits inside the rim. Each facet on the body is decorated with Chinoiserie figures against a squared background. The central facet on each side has an elderly man seated under a pine tree with two birds perched on a branch above him. On one side the facet on his left is occupied by a standing woman with a dancing child beside her; all the other facets have a standing woman with a child beside her leaning over a large jar. The shoulder is decorated with scrolls and trellis motifs, the spout with basket-work and geometrical motifs, and the handle with stylized foliage. The cover has a scrolling border which does not match the shoulder
History note: Gilbey Collection; Mr C. Bird of Saffron Walden from whom purchased for £2 on 4 October 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.8 cm
Length: 18 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1765 CE - 1775 CE
Base
Press-moulding : Red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded with applied moulded handle and spout
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with two cut corners and red line border
Accession number: C.479 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75234
Old object number: 3557
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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