Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware with decorated with panels moulded in relief with motifs of animals and figures
Off-white stoneware, slip cast, and salt-glazed. The baluster-shaped pot has eight oblong panels over eight small rectangular panels on the sides, and stands on a spreading octagonal foot. The octagonal spout is small and slender. The small looped handle has two notches at the top. The octagonal domed cover has a flange on its underside to fit inside the teapot, and has a ventilation hole. and finial with a shallow conical top. The oblong panels are decorated in relief with the following on each side: a coat of arms over a stag; the fable of the fox and the crane over; Cupid on a lion; a bearded man's head over a fox stealing a goose; and Danaë amongst clouds over a unicorn. The lid has a narrow border round the outer edge, and a wider inner border of shell/flower motifs
Notes
History note: G. Bonfiglioli, Eastbourne, from whom bought in July 1925 for £5 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Width: 9.6 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Note
Teapots with notched handles have sometimes been attributed to Thomas and John Wedgwood of the Big House, Burslem.
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
With Lid
Height 12.2 cm
Lid
Height 3.8 cm
Width 5.3 cm
Spout To Handle
Width 15.6 cm
Foot
Width 6.4 cm
Body
Materials used in production
white
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: white paper stick-on label with cut corners at the top
- Text: White salt-glaze/octagonal tea pot/& cover, the panels/containing moulded designs./b. at Eastbourne/July 1925/The teapot has/been broken and/stuck together
- Location: Base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in faded black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.577 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75563
Old object number: 4916
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
