IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75234 accession number: C.479 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded. The pot has a hexagonal body with a sloping shoulder and raised rim, an applied upward curving spout and an ear-shaped handle with projecting thumb rests. The hexagonal cover is slightly domed, and has a depressed ball knob, a ventilation hole, and a flange which fits inside the rim. Each facet on the body is decorated with Chinoiserie figures against a squared background. The central facet on each side has an elderly man seated under a pine tree with two birds perched on a branch above him. On one side the facet on his left is occupied by a standing woman with a dancing child beside her; all the other facets have a standing woman with a child beside her leaning over a large jar. The shoulder is decorated with scrolls and trellis motifs, the spout with basket-work and geometrical motifs, and the handle with stylized foliage. The cover has a scrolling border which does not match the shoulder object type: Dry-bodied red stoneware press-moulded with Chinoiserie decoration title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gilbey Collection; Mr C. Bird of Saffron Walden from whom purchased for £2 on 4 October 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/75234 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird Chinaman Chinese lady Chinese boy bird Chinaman Chinese lady Chinese boy TECHNIQUES ---------- red dry-bodied stoneware, press-moulded with applied moulded handle and spout press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: red dry-bodied stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 18 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Henry H. 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