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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware teapot with mould-applied reliefs representing the capture of Portobello, and Admiral Vernon.
Off-white stoneware, thrown and facetted, with rouletted, and mould-applied decoration, and salt-glaze. The teapot is small, with a short, high and curved hexagonal spout, and a tall looped handle. The body is facetted, with twelve panels above which is a horizontal border rouletted with a braid like pattern. The high-domed lid has a flange underneath. On top it has eight facets, a ventilation hole, and a tall cylindrical finial. The panels on the sides are decorated with a lion, a man, leaves, flowers, scrolling, and a crown.
History note: Sotheby’s, 2 November 1905, lot 117; purchased for £2 2s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8 cm
Width: 7.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1740
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Lid
Height 4.4 cm
Width 5.2 cm
Spout To Handle
Length 14 cm
Body
Decoration
Upper Border
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.513 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75356
Old object number: 2399
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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