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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, the body thrown, with applied handle, spout, and knob on the cover, salt-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise, green, red, mauve, and black enamels
White salt-glazed stoneware painted in polychrome enamels with Chinese figures among flowering plants and rocks in imitation of Chinese 'famille rose' porcelain
White salt-glazed stoneware painted in blue, turquoise, green, red, mauve, and black enamels. The truncated conical pot has a flat loop handle with a kick at its lower end, a tall curved spout terminating in a monster's head, and a shallow domed cover with an acorn-shaped knob. On one side there is an elegant Chinese woman holding a flower standing beside a fence, and on the other a seated Chinese man holding a red parasol, and a standing woman, flanked by flowering plants growing from the ground and from tall stylized rocks. Round the top of the pot there is a border of turquoise Chinese trellis diaper broken by panels of flowers. Both sides of the spout are decorated with a long spray of small red leaves. The cover is decorated with a spray of flowers, and a border matching that on the pot.
History note: M. F. Greenwood & Sons, 24 Stonegate, York from whom purcjhased for £40 on 5 April 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1755
-
1765
Enamelled decoration began in North Staffordshire around 1750.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, turquoise, green, red, mauve, and black enamels)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
off-white Stoneware
Accession number: C.600 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75616
Old object number: 4373
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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