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Landscape Teapot
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware slip cast with relief decoration of a rural scene on both sides, and a knob in the form of a lamb
White stoneware, slip cast with integral relief decoration, and salt glazed. The bulbous lobed pot has a curved spout and a loop handle with a thumbpiece at the top and another projection near the lower end. There are four small pouring holes in the wall of the pot at its junction with the spout. Its oval slightly domed cover has a ventilation hole, and a knob in the shape of a recumbent lamb. On each side of the body there is a rural scene with a three-storey house at the top flanked by three trees on the left and one on the right. Below these, on the left there are two sheep and one ewe with a lamb, and on the right, two cows and a calf. At the bottom of the scene there are three swans on a lake, and on its left, a man fishing from a boat. On both sides of the scene there are vertical scrolls and small panels of trellis work. The spout is decorated with basket-work with leaves around its lower end and mouth.
History note: Stanley Woolston, Cambridge, from whom bought for £9 on 17 December,1914 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.6 cm
Length: 20.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
-
1765
Teapots decorated with rural scene in low relief were made in both white salt-glazed stoneware and cream earthenware decorated with coloured lead glazes by several north Staffordshire potters, including Josiah Wedgwood, Robert Garner and Thomas Whieldon. They were also made in dry-bodied (unglazed) red stoneware. Block moulds described as for a 'Landskip Tpt' , possibly similar, were supplied by William Greatbatch to Josiah Wedgwood in January 1764, and he may have supplied these to other potters. See Documentation, Barker, 1990 for the documentary and archaeological evidence for their manufacture by the potters mentioned. The relief decoration on this example is very well defined, indicating that the mould had not been used many times.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Cover
Length 7 cm
Width 6.2 cm
Body
Knob
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.590 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75593
Old object number: 3708
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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