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Teapot: C.1577-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery (Probably)
Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Perhaps)

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. The pot has a globular body with a curved spout and a loop handle which is grooved vertically on the exterior, and has an upward hook on the terminal. The cover was attached to the body before glazing. It is domed and slightly stepped with a projecting rim, and squat conical knob. The base of the pot has an aperture through which it can be filled by means of a tube rising up the middle of the interior. The pot is decorated in Oriental style. On one side a man in European dress stands brandishing a spear or arrow in a landscape with a tree, small bushes and rocks. On the other side, a deer stands beside bamboos and rocks and above on the shoulder there is a large flower, flanked by small flower heads and wavy forms filled with small circles. The handle has floral decoration and there is a fern on the spout. The lid has a border matching that on the shoulder, and the knob is decorated with downward pointing leaves or petals.

Notes

History note: Mr Cecil Davis, St Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington Road, on 25 October 1923 from whom purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 14.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa 1740 CE - Circa 1760 CE

Note

The term 'Cadogan' teapot is used to indicate a pot which is filled through an aperture in the base instead of by lifting the lid and filling frm the top, but it did not come into use until the early 19th century.

School or Style

Oriental

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)

Materials used in production

bluish-white Tin-glaze
buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1577-1928
Primary reference Number: 72252
Old object number: 4257

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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