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Double Tea Caddy
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. Rectangular with a transverse division, double arched top, and two necks fitted with screw stoppers, each in the form of a flower. The top was originally decorated with six small finials of which stumps remain. The sides and shoulders are decorated in low relief with a geometrical pattern of squares, each made up of four smaller squares containing five spots. Between the main squares there are horizontal and vertical dividers resembling rope.
History note: Mr Phillips, Hitchin, from whom purchased for £4.4s. in August, 1905, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.1 cm
Height: 15.3 cm
Length: 14.5 cm
Width: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Knob
Diameter 5 cm
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, moulded, with a transverse wall inside to form two caddies, and salt-glazed; the screw top covers are made separately
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue fleur-de-lys in top corners and double blue line along top, right and left sides
Accession number: C.548 & A & B-1928
Primary reference Number: 75489
Old object number: 2507
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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