IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73417 accession number: C.2376 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green and red with stylized sprays of leaves and buds, and horizontal bands title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Vaumousse, Rouen, from whom purchased on 11 April 1901 by 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/73417 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Tin-glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2376_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/aa11/mid_C_2376_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/aa11/C_2376_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/aa11/preview_C_2376_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/aa11/C_2376_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/aa11/mid_C_2376_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/aa11/C_2376_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/aa11/preview_C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2376_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels