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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware painted in pink and green enamels with flowers and foliage reserved in a bright blue ground
White stoneware, thrown, with applied moulded handle, spout, and knob, salt-glazed and painted in bright green, and shades of pink enamel. reserved in a blue dip ground, which also covers the base.The pot has an ovoid body, with a crabstock handle and spout, and a circular cover with a horizontal flower-shaped knob, and a small ventilation hole. It has five holes pierced in the side behind the spout to emit the tea. Both sides of the body are painted with pink roses and other flowers and with green foliage, reserved in an uneven blue dip ground. The cover is painted to match with two small floral sprays.
History note: J.W. Ford Collection, Enfield; sold Sotheby’s , 25 June 25,1906; lot 66; purchased for £25 by Mr George Stoner, from whom bought for £29 on 11 July 1906 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge,.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.4 cm
Length: 17.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1760
CE
This pot resembles a group of salt-glazed stoneware known as Littler-Wedgwood blue ware which is partly or wholly covered with a blue dip containing cobalt before salt-glazing. But instead it appears to have been painted in blue enamel in which the floral decoration is reserved.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, pink)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 6.4 cm
Body
Handle, Spout, Knob
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.612 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75641
Old object number: 2475
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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