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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Salt-glazed stoneware with famille rose style decoration in polychrome enamels.
White salt-glazed stoneware painted overglaze in pink, green, blue, red, orange, yellow and black enamels. The bulbous teapot has a crabstock handle and spout. The lid has a bent twig handle. The decoration imitates Chinese famille rose style porcelain. On each side is a scroll, partly unrolled to reveal a vase with flowers and ribbons. The scroll is flanked by floral sprays. Round the mouth of the pot, is a narrow green diaper border broken by four small oblong panels containing a flower. The cover has a similar but wider border enclosing two small floral sprays. The handle and spout are decorated with green spots here and there.
History note: An executor’s sale at Maidenhead in late July 1906; bought by Sargent and Fisher, Palmer Street, Westminster;, sold by them for £8 on 3 August 1906 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest.
Width: 19.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
Circa
1765
CE
With its oriental-style scroll and pink flowers, the decoration of the teapot imitates so-called 'famille rose' porcelain. 'Famille rose' porcelain was produced in China in the 18th-century for the Western market and is characterised by the use of soft colours, including rose pink. Staffordshire potters produced relatively cheap salt-glazed stoneware inspired by Chinese porcelain for the middle classes, who could not afford genuine Oriental wares as these were very expensive and available only to the very wealthy.
Body With Lid
Height 11.2 cm
Body Without Lid
Height 9.5 cm
Body
Enamels
White stoneware
Salt-glaze
Painting overglaze
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: stick-on rectangular white paper collector’s label with blue line border having a trefoil motif in each top corner
Inscription present: rectangular olive-green card
Accession number: C.602 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75624
Old catalogue number: 2578
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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