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Monkey or Squirrel Teapot
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Slip cast white stoneware,with applied moulded handle and spout, and salt-glaze
White salt-glazed stoneware, slip cast in the form of a monkey or squirrel holding a nut in its forepaws, its body decorated with small birds among the branches of a fanciful tree. A curved spout with similar relief designs projects at the front, and handle in the form of a knobbly dragon is attached to the back. The head is removable and has a hole inside the left ear.
History note: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £27 on 29 October, 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 13.5 cm
Length: 18.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
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1755
Fanciful tableware in the form of animals, birds, fruit and vegetables was an aspect of the playful Rococo style of the mid-eighteenth century. The form of this teapot pot was probably inspired by either a Meissen monkey or squirrel teapot modelled by J.J. Kaendler in 1735. Both Glaisher on its purchase, and Rackham in his Catalogue of 1935, considered that it was a squirrel, but its head is more like a monkey's.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Slip casting
: White stoneware, slip cast, with applied handle and spout, and salt-glaze
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.575 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75559
Old object number: 3745
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Monkey or Squirrel Teapot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75559 Accessed: 2023-04-02 10:18:45
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Accession Number: C.618 & A-1928
Accession Number: MAR.O.145-1912
Accession Number: O.86-1991
Accession Number: O.69-1991
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