IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75554 accession number: C.573 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 April 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: slip-cast white salt-glazed stoneware teapot in the form of a crouching camel , and cover with lion knob object type: white stoneware, slip cast, and salt-glazed title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stoner, London, from whom bought for £22 on 19 May 1913 by 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/75554 SUBJECTS ------------------- camel lion camel lion CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware English Saltglazed Earthenware. "Saltglaze" with the Notes of a Collector Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds Important Americana . . ., Second Session, 21 January, Important Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, The Collection of Bernard and Judith Newman The Price Glover Collection of Fine English Pottery White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_573_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_573_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_573_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_573_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_573_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_573_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_573_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_573_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_573_20_26_20A_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 642 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_573_20_26_20A_1928.jpg height: 592 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_573_20_26_20A_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 642 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_573_20_26_20A_1928.jpg height: 296 pixels width: 250 pixels