IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75486 accession number: C.547 & A & B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 3 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. The tureen and its cover are in the form of an oval melon with veined skin, and the stand is in the form of a leaf standing on three feet. The bowl of the tureen has the remnant of a stalk at one end, and above it a rectangular cut out in the rim to take a spoon. The domed cover has an applied handle in the form of a stalk with at each end. three leaves of different sizes which extend over the top of the cover. Inside it has an applied flange which fits inside the top edge of the bowl of the tureen. The stand has a flat area in the middle surrounded by a border of overlapping leaves, and a short stalk at one end. The three feet are conical with a cup-shaped top attached to the base of the stand. object type: press-moulded white salt-glazed stoneware title: tureen NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 20 May, 1926, English Pottery and Porcelain, lot 101; bought by Hunt for £7 on behalf of 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/75486 SUBJECTS ------------------- melon melon TECHNIQUES ---------- white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed; the body of the tureen was moulded in two parts; the cover in one, with an applied moulded handle and leaf terminals, and inside an applied flange; the stand has three applied moulded feet press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II or George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware Longton Hall Porcelain Ceramic, Art and Civilisation --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_547_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1928_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels