IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75567 accession number: C.579 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 12 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: white salt-glazed slip stoneware decorated in relief with a fox-hunting scene and a drinking scene; lion-shaped knob on the cover title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/75567 TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing 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: 13 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_579_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/aa3/mid_C_579_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/aa3/C_579_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/aa3/preview_C_579_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/aa3/C_579_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/aa3/mid_C_579_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/aa3/C_579_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/aa3/preview_C_579_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/aa3/C_579_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_579_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_579_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_579_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels