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Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Production)
White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with vine branches in relief and painted in enamels
History note: Private collector from whom bought for £18 by Mr George Stoner; sold for £21 on 25 January 1911 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Length: 18.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II or George III
Circa
1760
-
1765
The colouring of this pot is very unusual. The patchy effect of the dark purple shows how difficult it was to reproduce enamelled coloured grounds on salt-glazed ware
Decoration composed of enamels ( manganese-brown, dark purple, two shades of violet, and green enamel) Surface composed of salt-glaze Body Handles And Spout Relief Decoration
Inscription present: half of a rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut upper corners and dark blue line round the left top and right sides; the o of No is raised
Accession number: C.608 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75630
Old object number: 3356
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Teapot"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75630 Accessed: 2022-07-02 09:13:03
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