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Factory:
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Engraver:
Hancock, Robert
(Design)
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, transfer-printed onglaze in purple with 'The Three Fishers' and on the other with 'The Two Shepherds' on the pot.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, transfer-printed onglaze in purple. Decorated on one side with 'The Three Fishers' and on the other with 'The Two Shepherds'. On the cover, a windmill flanked by trees, and a ruin with a tower flanked by trees. Purple line encircles rim of cover and neck of pot.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 10.7 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
Mid-18th Century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
Decoration composed of enamel ( purple)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed onglaze in purple
Accession number: C.91 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 32852
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/32852 Accessed: 2023-06-05 07:52:11
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Accession Number: C.58B-1918
Accession Number: C.119-1932
Accession Number: C.3 & A-1836
Accession Number: C.58A-1918
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