Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Schläfli Pottery
(Possibly)
Entities
Categories
Description
Slipware coffee pot with incised floral decoration and inscription 'Babra Here Im 1754 Jah' mottled in blue and manganese-purple under lead-glaze, and having a pewter cover
Pale red earthenware, thrown with applied handle and spout, coated with cream slip on the exterior. decorated with incising mottled with blue, green and manganese-purple under lead-glaze; pewter thumbpiece and cover. The pot has a bulbous body, rising from a disk base, a slightly concave sided neck with a projecting rim at the top, an upward curving spout, and a loop handle with a cylindrical pewter mount at the top to which is attached the thumbpiece and cover. Both sides of the bulbous part of the pot are decorated with formal flowering plants and flowers, and with a wreath of leaves around the junction of the body and spout, which is partly striped. On the shoulder there is a row of leaves pointing downwards, and on the neck above, a floral spray above the spout, dividing the words of the inscription 'Babra Here/Im 1754 Jah'. The whole surface is streaked in blue and manganese-purple with a little green, under the lead-glaze. The base is undecorated.
Notes
History note: Marc-Louis Solon Collection; sold by Charles Butters & Sons at their Premises, Trinity Buildings, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, 26th, 27th and 28th November, 1912, Catalogue of the Pottery & Porcelain in the Collection of L. M. Solon., lot 415. Puttick and Simpson’s, London, 17 May, 1918, lot 211; bought by Mr Stoner of Stoner & Evans for £4.5s with 5s. commission on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 19.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
dated
AD 1754
Note
Formerly attributed to Langnau. The Schläfli family's pottery operated in Albligen from c. 1700 to 1842, but it is possible that this pot was made elsewhere in the cantons of Bern and Freiburg. Some unusual examples, all dated 1754, like the Fitzwilliam's coffee pot, have some green in the splashed blue and manganese-purple underglaze decoration.
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
slip
( cream)
Decoration
composed of
metallic oxides
( mottled underglaze)
Cover
composed of
pewter
Body
composed of
earthenware
Foot
Diameter 10.5 cm
Spout
Materials used in production
Lead-glaze
Techniques used in production
Lead-glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: Babra Here / Im 17 54 Jah
- Location: On neck
- Method of creation: Incising
- Type: Inscription
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with cut corners edged by a dark Prussian blue line
- Text: No 4200/Slipware coffee pot/streaked and/clouded in colours upon a yellow ground/with name and/date 1754b at Putticks/May 17,1918/From the Solon/Collection
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand written in faded black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1899-1928
Primary reference Number: 72826
Old object number: 4200
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 2 December 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 2 December 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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