IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 208388 accession number: C.706 & A-2016 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 16 February 2016 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain (steatitic), painted overglaze in blue, green, turquoise, puce, brownish-red, and black enamels and gilt. The globular pot stands on a footring, and has a short cylindrical neck, a slightly curved, upward-tilting spout, and a D-shaped handle. There are five holes behind the spout to emit the tea. The domed cover has a ventilation hole and a cone-shaped knob. On both sides of the pot there is a shaped oval panel with a gold edge. One is decorated with the Oriental Staghunt pattern, and the other with two Chinamen conversing in a garden with a building, and birds flying overhead. Round the shoulder there is a border of gold lappets. The cover is decorated with a landscape within a scalloped outline, and round the edge has gold lapets. The knob has red-brown strokes on its summit. object type: soft-paste porcelain, painted in polychrome enamels and gilt with the Oriental ‘Staghunt’ pattern, and two Chinamen conversing in a garden with a building and birds overhead title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Professor Ffowcs-Williams STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208388 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.3 CITATIONS -------- The Stag Hunt Pattern 1745-1795, Some Thought on its Origin and Development British Teapots and Tea Drinking ---