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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware decorated with vine branches in relief and painted in enamels
History note: Private collector from whom bought for £18 by Mr George Stoner; sold for £21 on 25 January 1911 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Length: 18.6 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
Third quarter of 18th century
George II or George III
Circa
1760
-
1765
The colouring of this pot is very unusual. The patchy effect of the dark purple shows how difficult it was to reproduce enamelled coloured grounds on salt-glazed ware
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( manganese-brown, dark purple, two shades of violet, and green enamel)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Handles And Spout
Relief Decoration
Inscription present: half of a rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut upper corners and dark blue line round the left top and right sides; the o of No is raised
Accession number: C.608 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75630
Old object number: 3356
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 (2023) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75630 Accessed: 2023-06-03 20:06:29
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.58B-1918
Accession Number: C.119-1932
Accession Number: C.3 & A-1836
Accession Number: C.58A-1918
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