IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75603 accession number: C.593 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 December 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White stoneware, the body slip-cast with integral relief decoration, with an applied moulded spout, and handle, painted with touches of cobalt-blue before salt-glazing. The pot has a bowl-shaped body with a convex shoulder, and stands on a low spreading foot. The curved spout has a shell at its lower end, a spray of scrolling foliage on its side and a mouth in the shape of a bird's head. There are three pouring holes behind its junction with the body. The rolled handle has two flat cuts on its top, and a small kick at the bottom. The body is decorated on each side with horizontal scrolling vine branches bearing leaves and fruit, and with a large oval leaf below the handle and the spout, and one on each side. A band of rouletted indentations runs round the junction of the body and shoulder, which is similarly decorated with vine. The foot is encircled by a wavy branch bearing small bunches of grapes. The cover is decorated with three oval leaves, smaller vine leaves and grapes, and has a circular ventilation hole. The knob is in the shape of a lion, object type: white stoneware, slip-cast with vine sprays in relief, and touched with blue, before salt-glazing title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: a Wiltshire family; a gentleman of that family living 3 miles from Cambridge; Stanley Woolston, Cambridge from whom purchased for £13.10s. on 30 March 1915 by 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/75603 SUBJECTS ------------------- vine sprays lion vine sprays lion TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 19.6 CITATIONS -------- 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_593_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_593_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_593_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_593_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_593_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_593_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_593_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_593_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels