IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75535 accession number: C.563-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, salt-glazed and oil-gilded. The rectangular caddy was moulded in two halves and has a recessed base and a cylindrical neck. One of the long sides is decorated with a tea plant, to the right of which is impressed 'CIA/or TE/herb'. On the other long side is a vine growing over the branch of a tree, on the right of which is a label inscribed 'H[erb Te]. The reliefs were originally embellished with oil gilding but little of this remains. The two short sides,the shoulder and the neck are undecorated. object type: white salt-glazed stoneware, press-moulded with decoration in relief of a flowering tea shrub titled 'CIA or TE herb' and a vine titled 'Herb Teng', embellished with oil gilding of which little remains title: tea caddy NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr George Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £11 on 17 December 1917 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/75535 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking tea plant tea plant TECHNIQUES ---------- white stoneware, press-moulded, assembled, salt-glazed, and oil gilded on the reliefs, only remnants of which remain press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Johann Nieuhoff's Embassy: An inspiration for relief decoration on English stoneware and eathenware 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 Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume II, Earthenware The Incomparable Art. English Pottery from the Thomas Greg Collection Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds English Pottery Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_563_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_563_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_563_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_563_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_563_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_563_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_563_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_563_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels