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Lozenge-shaped teapot
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
(Production)
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.
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
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14 cm
Length: 16.5 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
1745
-
Circa
1755
1755
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).
Decoration: composed of cobalt oxide Surface: composed of salt-glaze
Accession number: C.591 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75594
Old objectnumber: 2731
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 (2020) "Teapot"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75594 Accessed: 2021-11-29 14:43:07
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