Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green and red with stylized sprays of leaves and buds, and horizontal bands
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, and red. The teapot has a globular body, a short cylindrical neck, a splayed foot, a loop handle, and a curved spout, partly attached to the body. The foot is encircled by a blue horizontal band, and on each side of the widest part of the body there is a long wavy stem of stylized leaves and buds with a red and a blue horizontal band above and below. Round the shoulder is a narrow border of green leaves alternating with striped red triangles with a green spot on each summit, and a blue band encircles the base of the neck. The spout has four stylized blue leaves on its front, and short blue strokes on each side, and the handle has five blue leaves down its back and short stripes on the sides. The cover has a border to match that on the shoulder, and there are two concentric blue circles on the top of the knob.
Notes
History note: Vaumousse, Rouen, from whom purchased on 11 April 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity college, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 12.3 cm
Length: 18.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1750
-
1775
Note
In his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935), Bernard Rackham suggested that this pot might have been made in Strasbourg. A more recent, and likely suggestion, made in 1996, was that it was made in Mirande, where a pottery operated briefly in the third quarter of the 18th century. This was made on the grounds of close similarities between the band of decoration round the middle of the pot, and decoration on a basin in the Musée des Jacobins at Auch (inv. 975.73), which in turn had decoration comparable to a plate inscribed 'de mirande' on its back, in the Musée municipale at Mirande. (See the correspondence in the object's notes file)
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, and red)
Surface
composed of
tin-glazed
Base
Diameter 7.5 cm
Body
Materials used in production
Earthenware
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2376 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73417
Old object number: 1239
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 1 July 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
