Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed slip stoneware decorated in relief with a fox-hunting scene and a drinking scene; lion-shaped knob on the cover
Off-white stoneware, the body slip-cast with integral relief decoration, applied handle, spout , foot, and knob, and salt-glaze. The pear-shaped body has a gadrooned shoulder, a loop handle with a kick at the lower end, a curved spout with scrolled sides and monster's head mouth, and stands on a almond-shaped foot with sloping sides. The oval cover is domed and has a knob in the shape of a recumbent lion. The upper part of one side of the body is decorated with a hunting scene with several horsemen and hounds. The other side has a double headed eagle flanked by two rectangular windows with a winged head above each pair. Below these, on the left two women are drinking tea at a table approached from the viewer's right by a maid carying a cup, and on the right, two men are drinking at a table, approached from the viewer's left by a man holding a wine bottle. In the middle, below the eagle there is a fireplace with a pot on the hob. The lower part of the pot is decorated with slanting fluting. The cover has a bird amidst foliage on each side of the knob.
Notes
History note: Private owner; I. Bonfiglioli, 41 South Street, Eastbourne, from whom purchased for £5.10s. on 1 July 1925 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 13 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
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Height 9.5 cm
Width 6 cm
Handle To Spout
Length 15 cm
Spout, Handle, Knob
Materials used in production
creamy off-white
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.579 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75567
Old object number: 4601
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
