IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75587
accession number:	C.586 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 19 April 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White stoneware, with slip-cast body, applied moulded parts, and salt-glaze. The bulbous pear-shaped pot stands on three shell and paw feet, and has a slender curved spout with a bird's head at the top, and a rolled loop handle with three pairs of horizontal cuts in it, and a slight kick at the lower end. The oval, domed cover has a capstan-shaped, flat-topped knob with a piercd ventilation hole beside it. The body of the pot is decorated in relief on both sides with a large pecten shell, flanked by dolphins at the top. On one side of the hinge of the shell there is a male head with a semi-circular scrolled headdress., and on the other side, a semi-circle filled with two large and two small flowers and stylized foliage. The oval domed cover is decorated with two shell motifs and two flowers.
object type: white salt-glazed stoneware teapot on three feet, decorated with a large shell on both sides
title:	teapot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson, Bournemouth in January 1917 and received at Cambridge on 17 January by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75587


SUBJECTS
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shell
shell



CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 10

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 11.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware
The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800
White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles
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