IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75607 accession number: C.597 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White salt-glazed stoneware painted overglaze in coloured enamels. The pear-shaped teapot has an s-curved spout and loop handle. The body has integral relief decoration in the form of a different shell and scroll pattern on either side of the teapot. On one side of the teapot, the shell pattern includes two masks. The spout and lid are decorated with relief shells and scrolls. Painted in enamels on the sides of the teapot are flowering branches. Four flowers are painted on the lid. The flowers are pinkish-red with green and yellow-green leaves; the branches from which they grow are blue and blue-grey. Parts of the relief on the body and spout are picked out in red, black, green and blue and there is a painted trellis-pattern border around the top of the teapot. object type: Salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamels with floral decoration. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before Galton’s shop, Christchurch, Hampshire (now Dorset), where it was purchased for £23 on 12 November 1918 by Mrs Dickson of Bournemouth on behalf of 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/75607 TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800 The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware The Delhom Gallery Guide, English Pottery White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/mid_C_597_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/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/preview_C_597_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/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/mid_C_597_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/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/preview_C_597_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/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/mid_C_597_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/aa4/C_597_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/aa4/preview_C_597_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels