IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75594
accession number:	C.591 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: white stoneware, slip-cast, and painted with cobalt-blue in outlines of the design on the sides and cover the before salt-glazing
object type: white stoneware, slip cast, with applied handle, spout, and knob, painted with touches of cobalty-oxide, and salt-glazed
title:	teapot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75594


SUBJECTS
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tea drinking
shell
shell



TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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slip-casting

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 16.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Early Staffordshire Pottery
English Earthenware and Stoneware
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
Important Americana . . ., Second Session, 21 January, Important Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, The Collection of Bernard and Judith Newman
An English Pottery Heritage: The Troy Dawson Chappell Collection of Earthenware & Stoneware 1630 – 1800
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