Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
House Teapot
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware teapot in the form of a house, painted with touches of cobalt-blue before glazing
White stoneware, slip cast, painted with touches of cobalt-blue, and salt-glazed. The body and cover of the pot are in the form of a three storied house with identical sides, a sloping tiled roof, a curved spout in the form of a monster's head with scrollwork on the neck, and a roll handle with two notches on the top, and a kick at the lower end. On the sides of the house, a small man is shown standing in the central doorway under an arched porch on which stands lion in relief beneath a similar arch. The reliefs are lightly touched with a few lines and spots of cobalt-blue painted before salt-glazing in the kiln.
Notes
History note: Miss Kingsland, Croydon, from whom purchased ifor £4 10s.0d. in 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 11.5 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
-
1755
Note
House teapots of different designs were made by several north Staffordshire potters in the mid-18th century, such as Thomas and John Wedgwood, of the Big House, Burslem, c. 1745-55.
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt oxide)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Materials used in production
white
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Slip-casting
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.592 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75602
Old object number: 1375
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
