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Teapot from a Toy Tea Set
Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with landscapes
Buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a sloping spout and loop handle of oval section, and a slighly convex cover with a cone-shaped knob. The both sides are decorated with a landscape with a house, and trees beside a river or lake. Round the mouth there is a border of waves, the handle is horizontally striped and the spout is covered with indeterminate stripes and plants. The cover has a similar border.
History note: Mr Stewart Acton, 10a East Street, Brighton, from whom purchased as part of a tea set on 16 November 1923 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 5 cm
Height: 3.75 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1760
CE
The teapot is part of a miniature tea set. See also C.1554.2-1928, C.1554.3-1928, C.1554.4 & A-1928,C.1554.5 & A-1928 and C.1554.6 & A-1928
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white and very shiny
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1554.1 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72209
Old object number: 4259
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Teapot from a Toy Tea Set" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72209 Accessed: 2024-12-27 07:57:46
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