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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, slip cast, and salt-glazed
Slip-cast white salt-glazed stoneware teapot in the form of a crouching camel , and cover with lion knob
White salt-glazed stoneware, slip-caste with integral relief decoration, applied moulded handle, spout and knob. The oval lower part of the body has the hind legs of the camel outlined in relief on either side of the twice notched loop handle, and its tall upright spout has an open-mouthed camel's head at the end. The upper part of the body is in the form of a hexagonal container resting on the camel's back. The hexagonal cover has a recumbent lion knob. On one side of the lower part, a man in eighteenth-century costume holding his hat under his arm, is walking beside a Turk or Arab who holds a coiling rope leading to the camel's neck spout. On the other side there is a girth holding on the container above, flanked by scrolls. The upper part has panels decorated with a man and woman drinking at a table; the fable of the fox and the crow; a man bowing to a Chinese man holding a parrot; a bird above a tree, and other plants. The top of the cover is decorated with curving stems radiating from the lion knob.
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom bought for £22 on 19 May 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
This pot is very light for its size because of the thin walls of its slip-cast body. A similar pot in the British Museum has a knob in the shape of a recumbent camel.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Spout, Knob
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with two upper corners cut, and border of two red lines except for the lower edge
Accession number: C.573 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75554
Old object number: 3658
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/75554 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:46:52
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