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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White-salt-glazed teapot inscribed 'GREEN:/TEA'
Off-white salt-glazed stoneware. The globular body stands on three moulded paw feet. It has a short cylindrical neck, a slightly curved spout and a roll handle with an upward 'kick' at the lower end. On each side it has the words GREEN:/TEA: surrounded by stylized leaves linked by scrolls. The circular domed cover has a capstan finial and is decorated with applied plant motifs: a trefoil leaf, a daisy head and a small spray of leaves.
History note: J.W.Ford Collection, Enfield Old Park, Middlesex; sold without name at Sotheby’s, 22 May, 1908, lot 10, sold for £4.15; bought from Mr George Stoner on 25 May, 1908 for £7 17s. 6d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Length: 14.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Green tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, and was one of several different types of tea available in the eighteenth century. The leaves have not been oxidized, and today Green Tea is considered to be beneficial to health.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Pot
Height 8.5 cm
Feet
white Stoneware
Inscription present: IN RELIEF
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.518 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75366
Old object number: 2850
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.58B-1918
Accession Number: C.119-1932
Accession Number: C.3 & A-1836
Accession Number: C.77 & A-1918
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