Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with a green ground and two reserves painted in enamels respectively with a vase of flowers and a basket of flowers in Oriental style
White stoneware, moulded, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, dull red, and dark puce enamels. The hexagonal pot has bowed side and a curved spout moulded in relief with overlapping veined leaves. The loop handle is reeded and has a kick at its lower end. The wall behind the spout is pierced by six holes to emit the tea. The hexagonal, slightly convex cover is moulded to match. It has a central ventilation hole (blocked by glaze), and a handle formed by a twisted stem. The pot is decorated with a green ground except for the base. On each side there is a roughly oval reserve with a dark puce border, enclosing on one side a vase of flowers, and on the other, a basket of flowers in Oriental style. On the cover there are two small shaped oblong reserves with puce borders, one enclosing a yellow flower and two leaves, and the other a pink flower and two leaves.
Notes
History note: Private collector in Royston; sold for £10 to Stanley Woolston, Cambridge; bought from him on 15 October 1919 for £17 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 10.3 cm
Length: 17 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II or George III
Circa
1755
-
1765
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, and dark puce)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Materials used in production
White stoneware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: almost square white paper stick-on label with cut corners and
- Text: illegible
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in faded black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.607 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75629
Old object number: 4116
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
