IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75230 accession number: C.477 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, spout, and knob, and engine-turned decoration. The pear-shaped pot stands on a circular spreading foot. It has a straight sloping spout, and a loop handle with vertical reeding on its exterior. The high domed cover has a narrow border, and an applied cone-shaped knob pierced by a ventilation hole. The body, the middle of the spout, and the cover are decorated with wavy horizontal bands of engine-turning with groups of five vertical lines at intervals. On the base here is an impressed imitation Chinese seal mark incorporating a W in its lower half. title: coffee pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 6 February, 1908, part of lot 228; bought with sugar basin C.474 & A-1928 for £3 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/75230 CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: red dry-bodied stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood I, Josiah DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Width (handle To Spout) units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Some Groups of English Redware of the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Part I Some Groups of English Redware of the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Part II Josiah Wedgwood and Engine-Turned Decoration: Experimentation, Frustration and Tenacity --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_477_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_477_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_477_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_477_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_477_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_477_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_477_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_477_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels