IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75232 accession number: C.478 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded with applied moulded handle and spout, and glazed interior. The straight-sided hexagonal body has a slightly curved shoulder, and raised rim. The hexagonal cover is slightly domed and has a circular ventilation hole, and a deep inner flange which fits inside the rim. Each facet of the pot is decorated with Chinoiserie figures against a squared ground. Repeated on both sides are panels of a standing woman with a dancing child, a standing woman with a child leaning over a large jar, and an elderly man seated beside a pine tree with two birds perched on a branch above him. The shoulder is decorated with six ferns on the angles and vertical lappet-like motifs. The basket-work spout has curling leaves at the tip and at its junction with the body. The lower part of the loop handle is moulded with basket work and the top with stylized foliage. The cover has a central convolvulus flower knob beside a leaf and a smaller flower, and a border to match the shoulder. title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: A the shop (possibly name of Allen) at the corner of Northumberland Avenue and the street, opposite the Metropolitan station, running parallel to the Embankment where bought for £ 1.5 on July 7, 1911 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/75232 TECHNIQUES ---------- red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded, with glazed interior press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: red dry-bodied stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge William Greatbatch, a Staffordshire Potter The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_478_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/aa3/mid_C_478_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/aa3/C_478_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/aa3/preview_C_478_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/aa3/C_478_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/aa3/mid_C_478_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/aa3/C_478_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/aa3/preview_C_478_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels