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Tea caddy: C.753-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Bovey Heathfield Pottery (Probably)

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Description

Pearlware painted underglaze in dark blue and yellowish-brown

Cream earthenware, moulded, and painted under blue-tinted lead glaze in dark blue and yellowish-brown. The caddy is square and has flat shoulders and a cylindrical neck. On each corner there is an applied moulded bust of a child, and on the base four coiled feet. Two opposing sides are decorated with a heart-shaped raised outline enclosing a relief of a little girl holding a doll accompanied by a little boy with a small dog on a lead, with a small tree and a low broken off colum on the left. Below them is an impressed inscription, 'SPORTIVE INNOCCENCE' .On the other two sides there is a similar heart enclosing a relief of a child holding out a bearded male mask to frighten a little girl who has fallen to the ground and raises her left hand to push it away. Below is the impressed inscription, 'MISCHIEVOUS SPORT'. In each of the lower spaces outside the heart outlines there is a painted sprig, and above one, a moth or butterfly. Painted round the top of three sides is the inscription, Eliz.th (th raised) Taylor/Born march/18th. (th raised) 1795'

Notes

History note: 'A poor person'; Miss Wordingham, 40 Tennison Road, Cambridge; from whom purchased for £6 on 7 March, 1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

  • Bovey Tracey ⪼ Devonshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Production date: dated AD 1795

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with cut corners and dark blue line round the edge

  • Text: 4997/Pratt ware/tea caddy with/medallions repres/enting children at/play and inscribed/Elizth Taylor born/March 18th 1795'/b. in Cambridge/March 7 1928'
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: Circular white paper stick-on label

  • Text: SOTHEBYS/FOUNDED 1744/CHILDHOOD 1988, and in biro, 22/18
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in black biro
  • Type: Exhibition label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.753-1928
Primary reference Number: 75978
Old object number: 4997
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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