IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75543
accession number:	C.569 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 20 January 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The teapot has a lozenge-shaped body with a spout in the form of a human arm and hand grasping the head of a serpent, and a rolled loop handle with two notches on the top and a kick at the bottom. The lozenge-shaped stepped cover has a capstan-shaped knob, and a flange underneath  which fits inside the neck of the pot. It has a small ventilation hole beside the knob. The four sides of the pot are each decorated with a central shell in relief surrounded by bands of Greek key pattern and figure-of-eight motifs.
object type: white salt-glazed stoneware lozenge-shaped teapot with spout in the form of a human arm and hand grasping a serpent
title:	teapot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: not known before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75543





TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Saltglazed Earthenware. "Saltglaze"  with the Notes of a Collector
White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles
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