1669831225000 1669823633000 Standard Record object-311928 1757613694694 1757540802000 1757613692659 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-311928 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311928 dc9fa4fa-d1a1-36eb-b978-2df5b216abc5 5 reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware reference term-128085 adlib-term-128085 3ad27c20-613b-3b26-ad89-1bd3be4f6669 transfer-printed ware reference term-113690 adlib-term-113690 207e9fd2-c0ad-3831-8ed1-f68ea34e9a50 teaware blue from cobalt reference term-108168 adlib-term-108168 0fcc3e04-2ff3-3bde-810f-0474bbfa0943 ceramic printing colour Decoration in blue reference term-120102 adlib-term-120102 02b9d189-d17a-37b4-ab50-5b6f2bc2fcf1 transfer-printing underglaze Diameter cm 10.8 Height cm 6 Cover Whole Body white earthenware, probably slip cast, and transfer-printed underglaze in blue reference term-28383 adlib-term-28383 1abc8fbe-1c71-3b7c-8a53-64d9cc93199f slip casting Applied Arts 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. 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'. reference exhibition-3841 adlib-exhibition-3841 ee3bb82a-928b-36d8-b017-531b1e95b270 Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition C.15 & A-2022 1 accession number C.15 & A-2022 311928 priref 311928 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311928 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311928 printed in blue on both sides On both sides printed in blue LADIES I HOPE / YOU WILL MAKE FREE / AND TELL ME HOW / YOU LIKE YOUR TEA verse transfer-printed in blue on interior of base On interior base printed in blue Health to the Sick. / Honour to the Brave. / Success to the Lover. / and Freedom to the Slave. verse transfer-printed underglaze in blue on underside of cover underside of cover in middle printed underglaze in blue W H initials reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 2022 reference agent-157407 adlib-agent-157407 be30d5e5-9599-3b81-b0f2-9c573b5dd321 E. & H. Manners 2022 2022 2022 given Purchased from E. & H. Manners, Kensington Church Street, London. Previously sold via online auction by Lawrences Auctioneers of Crewkerne on Wednesday 12 October 2022 (lot 797). 1827 1827 1827 circa 1827 1843 1827-43 is the most likely date range but the initials WH could have been used up to 1849 when Thomas Hackwood became head of the firm 1 1843 1843 circa 1843 possibly factory reference agent-209912 adlib-agent-209912 27042f47-0962-34c7-bf17-c493a41b7924 William Hackwood This teapot is an example of an object used to subtly convey the politics or beliefs of its owner, in this case, their support for the Abolitionist cause. The short poem, displayed twice on the exterior, ‘Ladies I hope you will make free and tell me how you like your tea', is relatively well-known and features on other early-mid-nineteenth century tea wares. This has historically (mistakenly) been connected to the suffrage movement but here, in a very rare combination with a second well-known verse, ‘Health to the sick, Honour to the brave, Success to the lover, and Freedom to the slave' (taken from Robert Duke’s 1717 poem ‘The Review’) displayed inside the base of the teapot, it clearly alludes to the Abolitionist viewpoints held by the middle-class woman serving tea and her attitudes towards the consumption of sugar (refusing sugar, or at least that ‘produced by Slaves’ was connected to the Abolitionist cause). However, there are questions raised as to how this second verse, inside the teapot, was shown. Was it shown to visitors before tea was made, or shown to them after the tea was drunk, just visible through the tea leaves remaining in the bottom of the pot? Or was it a secret, known only to the hostess? Although the pattern here (without the verses) was derived from Spode's popular 'Italian' pattern, the factory that produced the teapot is uncertain. The initials, 'W H' recorded on the underside of the cover, have been found on other blue and white earthenware of this period, and may refer to William Hackwood, who began manufacturing in a partnership in the Eastwood area of Hanley in 1807, and after this was dissolved in 1827, continued on his own there until 1843. In 1842 the firm became William Hackwood & Son and acquired the New Hall works at Shelton. William died in 1849 and Thomas Hackwood continued until 1856. There were several other factories which produced versions of Spode's Italian, such as Joseph Stubbs at Longport, Burslem. reference term-120816 adlib-term-120816 b8c35cb6-f02f-34c9-9dda-b3120e12c749 19th Century, second quarter reference term-110443 adlib-term-110443 8e41da15-698e-303b-ac89-c241a4e52efc literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Eastwood area of Hanley Hanley clear reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze white reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 27 reference term-134325 adlib-term-134325 db958000-dae0-3e24-9e0c-2bd001d3f7b7 tea kettle and cover reference term-117371 adlib-term-117371 fe1e9c7c-8ecc-340b-83f8-c75e822eb1d0 teapot and cover history note Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, online auction held, Wednesday 12 October 2022, lot 797. E. & H. Manners, Kensington Church Street, London, from whom purchased. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. pp. 127-9, 'The Blue Italian Pattern', and p. 145, fig. 71, a colour illustration of a large dish, from which it can be seen that the pattern on the tea pot differs in several respects from the Spode version, and the quality of printing is less fine. The details of the border pattern also differ. 127-9 and 145 reference publication-5819 adlib-publication-5819 3857f467-79c8-3645-bc84-8cb1cfb42080 Antique Blue and White Spode Cf. p. 34 'British Cobalt Blue' a pattern resembling Spode's Blue Italian on a jug dated 1820 with a neck border similar to the one on the shoulder of this pot, and printed on the base with 'British Cobalt/Blue'. The authors associate this with Bristol where there was a warehouse owned by importers of Saxon smalt, a vitreous frit coloured with cobalt, used to make Bristol blue glass. This was used by several potters known to have copied the Italian pattern. 34 reference publication-8980 adlib-publication-8980 058a1c6b-5d77-3a2f-896a-132a9ecc8d21 The Dictionary of Blue and White Printed Pottery 1780-1880, Volume II Ref. pp. 299 marks and information on Hackwood & Co, Eastwood, Hanley, 1807-27; William Hackwood, Eastwood, Hanley, 1827-43. p. 300 mark W H attributed to Hackwood; p. 300 William Hackwood, New Hall Pottery, Shelton, 1846-9 (dates later revised to 1842-9). William Hackwood died in 1849. 299-300 reference publication-2663 adlib-publication-2663 a2faf0b6-febd-3d16-82e0-6444a2dc48e7 Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks Ref. p. 138 for references made to William Hackwood's factories in Directories. 138 reference publication-8983 adlib-publication-8983 fb7a3987-1440-3d26-b658-7d31d7f166ad Staffordshire Potters 17891-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks reference term-126976 adlib-term-126976 f4ab1dc6-391d-3d9d-be80-54036d11676b tea drinking

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