Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware with integral relief decoration of shells and foliage painted in polychrome enamels
White stoneware, slip-cast with integral relief decoration, applied moulded spout, and rolled handle, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, and grey enamels. The pot has a four-lobed pear-shaped body, with a curved spout and loop handle with a kick at the lower end. The domed four-lobed cover has a conical knob. In the middle lobe on each side of the pot there are overlapping shells of decreasing size, one of which has a reclining man at the top. These are flanked by sprays of pink flowers, oak foliage with yellow acorns, and at the top by two small shells, above which is a band of grey Greek key motifs. The spout is has an oak spray on each side, The cover is decorated with four shells in relief with painted pink and yellow half-flowers and foliage between them, and has a blue border broken by four green rectangular motifs enclosing diamond shapes, two small pink flowers, and two larger yellow and pink half-flowers.
Notes
History note: Mr Freeman, Cambridge, from whom bought in 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 14 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1755
-
1760
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, and dark pink)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Materials used in production
White stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.596 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75606
Old object number: 1371
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
