IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72878 accession number: C.1922 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 December 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, thrown with applied handle and spout, coated in pale brown slip, and decorated in cream slip, partially coloured in blue, green, and yellow under clear glaze, The teapot stands on a footring. It has a depressed globular body with a short neck, an upward curving spout and a strap handle with a slight thumb rest near the top. The circular cover is pierced by a circular ventilation hole and has a cone-shaped knob. The sides, spout, and top of the lid are decorated with eidelweiss, lilies of the valley, gentian and other Swiss flowers painted in cream slip, and slips coloured blue, green, and yellow. Round the junction of the shoulder and neck there is a border of blue leaves, and on the neck a cream band with slanting stems bearing two leaves repeated around it. Down the back of the handle yellow trefoil flowers alternate with pairs of green leaves, and cream lines with short projecting strokes run down both sides. object type: Slip-coated earthenware painted with flowers and foliage in cream slip and coloured in blue, green, yellow underglaze title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Given by Mrs Born Straub of Thun in September 1903 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College. Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72878 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking flowers edelweiss light purplish blue flowers edelweiss light purplish blue CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1900 - 1903 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1903 culture: 19th Century, Late culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 20 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1922_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels