IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75569 accession number: C.580 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 24 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, slip-cast, and salt-glazed. The teapot stands on an octagonal base. The body is of rounded square shape with sloping sides, a stepped shoulder, and square neck. It has a faceted curved spout, and a roll handle with a kick at the lower end. The square slightly domed cover has a flange which fits inside the neck of the pot, and a knob in the shape of a crouching rabbit or hare. The lower part of the body of the pot is gadrooned. Above that, it is divided into four sections, each decorated with a wide band of plant motifs in relief with a man's bewigged head at each corner. The top of the cover is divided into four sections each decorated with tulips and other plants in relief. The rabbit knob is placed so that its head is facing in the direction of the spout, and in front of it is a ventilation hole object type: white salt-glazed teapot and cover with a rabbit knob title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Arthur Edward Clarke, Wisbech and Cambridge; sold Sotheby's, 18 June 1919, Well known and extensive collection of English pottery with some fine old English Furniture, lot 106; bought by Mr Stoner for £8 for 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/75569 SUBJECTS ------------------- hare hare TECHNIQUES ---------- off-white stoneware, slip-cast, and salt-glazed slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Saltglazed Earthenware. "Saltglaze" with the Notes of a Collector --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_580_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_580_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_580_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_580_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_580_20_26_20A_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_580_20_26_20A_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_580_20_26_20A_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_580_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_580_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_580_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_580_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_580_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels