IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75331 accession number: C.505 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 3 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White stoneware, thrown with moulded and applied handle and spout, incised and breadcrumb decoration, salt-glazed and gilded. Moulded knob on lid. The teapot has a globular body, standing on a low foot. It has a curved spout with a male mask underneath and a spray of flowers on either side. The dragon-shaped handle is decorated with leafy scrolls. The circular domed lid has a ventilation hole, and recumbent lion knob. The sides of the pot are decorated with a deeply incised diamond pattern with gilt breadcrumb decoration above and below, also on lid. object type: White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with gilding title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before 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/75331 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion TECHNIQUES ---------- sttoneware, thrown with moulded and applied handle and spout, incised and breadcrumb decoration, salt-glazed and gilded. Moulded knob on lid throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum English Saltglazed Earthenware. "Saltglaze" with the Notes of a Collector White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection Stonewares and Stone Chinas of Northern England to 1851: the Fourth exhibition of the Northern Ceramic Society English and Continental Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_505_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/aa7/mid_C_505_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/aa7/C_505_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/aa7/preview_C_505_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/aa7/C_505_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/aa7/mid_C_505_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/aa7/C_505_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/aa7/preview_C_505_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels