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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with gadrooning, human masks, animal and plant motifs
Creamy-white stoneware, slipcast with integral relief decoration, with applied moulded spout, handle and knob, and salt-glaze. The pot stands on a low foot. The lower part of its squat bulbous body is decorated with gadrooning above which it is covered with a busy design of human masks, animals, fruit, foliage, and flowers in relief. Round the plain shoulder there is a zig-zag border. The spout in the form of a monster's head with a human arm on each side, and has nine holes behind it to emit the tea. The S-shaped handle in the form of a dragon. The domed cover is decorated with indistinct foliage and flowers in slight relief, and has a knob in the shape of a lion, whose head is missing.
History note: Sale at Broughton Rectory, Hampshire, on 16 August 1917; bought for £20 by Mr Goodman, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth on behalf of Mrs W.D. Dickson, Bournemouth, by whom given as a Christmas present in 1920 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.3 cm
Length: 16 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
-
1755
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Cover
Diameter 5.5 cm
Body
Handle, Spout, Knob
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut corners and dark blue line border
Accession number: C.568 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75541
Old object number: 5002
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75541 Accessed: 2024-11-25 00:05:13
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