Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
Lozenge-shaped teapot
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
White stoneware, slip cast, with applied handle, spout, and knob, painted with touches of cobalty-oxide, and salt-glazed
White stoneware, slip-cast, and painted with cobalt-blue in outlines of the design on the sides and cover the before salt-glazing
White stoneware, slip-cast with integral intaglio and relief decoration, painted with cobalt and salt-glazed. The pot is lozenge-shaped and stands on a lozenge-shaped foot. The spout rises from a monster's open mouth on one angle. The handle is applied to the opposite angle. It has two notches on the top, and an upward kick at the lower end. The slightly domed, lozenge-shaped cover is surmounted by a lizard knob. In the middle of each side of the body there is a depressed panel enclosing a double shell motif in relief, surrounded by birds amid wavy stems of foliage and flowers in intaglio painted in blue. The spout, handle and lizard are left white.
Notes
History note: Sotheby's, 13 November1907, lot 65; bought for £11.5s.0d. by Mr Button on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 14 cm
Length: 16.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
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Circa
1755
Note
The effect of the blue decoration is comparable to 'scratch-blue' but the outlines were moulded integrally with the sides, not incised into them. A comparable teapot with a different spout is in the Schreiber Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (see Documentation).
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Materials used in production
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
Slip-casting
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): 87
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Early Staffordshire Pottery
page(s): 24, 27
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English Earthenware and Stoneware
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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
page(s): 23
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Important Americana . . ., Second Session, 21 January, Important Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, The Collection of Bernard and Judith Newman
page(s): 94
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An English Pottery Heritage: The Troy Dawson Chappell Collection of Earthenware & Stoneware 1630 – 1800
page(s): Part 2, pp. 558-559
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.591 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75594
Old objectnumber: 2731
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
