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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, slip-cast with vine sprays in relief, and touched with blue, before salt-glazing
White stoneware, the body slip-cast with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded spout, and handle, painted with touches of cobalt-blue before salt-glazing. The pot has a bowl-shaped body with a convex shoulder, and stands on a low spreading foot. The curved spout has a shell at its lower end, a spray of scrolling foliage on its side and a mouth in the shape of a bird's head. There are three pouring holes behind its junction with the body. The rolled handle has two flat cuts on its top, and a small kick at the bottom. The body is decorated on each side with horizontal scrolling vine branches bearing leaves and fruit, and with a large oval leaf below the handle and the spout, and one on each side. A band of rouletted indentations runs round the junction of the body and shoulder, which is similarly decorated with vine. The foot is encircled by a wavy branch bearing small bunches of grapes. The cover is decorated with three oval leaves, smaller vine leaves and grapes, and has a circular ventilation hole. The knob is in the shape of a lion,
History note: A Wiltshire family; a gentleman of that family living 3 miles from Cambridge; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge from whom purchased for £13.10s. on 30 March 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Length: 19.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
-
1755
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Cover
Diameter 5.9 cm
Body
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.593 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75603
Old object number: 3719
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75603 Accessed: 2024-12-22 14:23:48
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