IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311928 accession number: C.15 & A-2022 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 30 November 2022 updated: Wednesday 10 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, transfer-printed underglaze in blue. The pot is in the form of a tea kettle with a pronounced shoulder, long, gently curved spout, and a large kidney-shaped handle rising from curved feet on the shoulder. The slightly convex circular lid has a large knob with a shallow button on top. The body is decorated on both sides with with a continuous pastoral scene after Spode's 'Italian' pattern, interrupted by an oblong wreath enclosing the verse: 'LADIES I HOPE/YOU WILL MAKE FREE/AND TELL ME HOW/YOU LIKE YOUR TEA'. The shoulder is decorated with a wide formal pattern of stylized plants, spirals and striations. Inside, on the base, is the motto: 'Health to the Sick./Honour to the Brave./Success to the Lover./And Freedom to the Slave' .The top of the cover is decorated to match the shoulder, and the top of the knob has a daisy-like flower on a striated ground. On the underside of the cover, printed in the centre, are the initials, ' W H'. object type: Teapot in the form of a tea kettle, with large 'top' handle, and long curved spout, white earthenware, transfer-printed underglaze in blue with pastoral scenes after Spode’s ‘Italian’ pattern, interrupted on both sides with the verse: 'LADIES I HOPE / YOU WILL MAKE FREE/AND TELLMEHOW/YOU LIKE YOUR TEA’. Inside, on the base, is the printed motto: 'Health to the Sick, / Honour to the Brave, / Success to the Lover, / and Freedom to the Slave'. Printed ‘WH’ mark on underside of lid. title: tea kettle and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, online auction held, Wednesday 12 October 2022, lot 797. E. & H. Manners, Kensington Church Street, London, from whom purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2022 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311928 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: transfer-printed ware category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1827 - 1843 creation date earliest: 1827 creation date latest: 1843 culture: 19th Century, second quarter CREATORS -------- maker: William Hackwood DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition CITATIONS -------- Antique Blue and White Spode The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880, Volume II Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks Staffordshire Potters 17891-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks ---