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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied moulded reliefs, and painted in pale polychrome enamels
White stoneware, with applied spout and handles, applied moulded decoration, salt-glaze, and painting in blue, green, yellow, dark pink, and brown enamels; the handles and spout green overall. The pot has a globular body with a crabstock handle and spout, and a shallow circular cover with a ventilation hole and a small bent crabstock twig handle. There are five holes in the body behind the spout to emit the tea. On both sides of the body, an Oriental style flowering branch extends to right and left from the handle and a smaller branches from the spout. At the junction of one end of the handle on the cover thee is an applied twig with a leaf, dark pink berries and yellow flower.
History note: Mr J.W. Ford, Enfield; Sotheby’s Ford sale, second portion, 22 May 1908, lot 37, sold for £6 to Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £10.10s.0d. on 25 May, 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.3 cm
Length: 20.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
-
1765
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, pink, and brown)
Base
Diameter 7 cm
Body
Handle, Spout, Knob
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with blue line border on three sides and a small plant motif in two top corners
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label with printed circle enclosing printed wording in circle and hand-written number in the centre
Accession number: C.609 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75631
Old object number: 2851
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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