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Factory: Wedgwood, Aaron (Possibly)
White stoneware with applied relief decoration, coated with blue dip and salt-glazed; Littler-Wedgwood blue.
White stoneware, the body thrown, the spout, handle and knob press-moulded, with applied moulded relief decoration on the body and cover, coated with a dip containing cobalt, and salt-glazed. There are four holes pierced in the body behind the spout. Remnants of oil gilding remains on the reliefs and on one side; also over a fault on the lower part of the handle. The pot has a globular body standing on a circular foot, a crabstock handle and spout, and an almost flat cover with a bird-shaped knob. Each side of the pot is decorated with a vertical vine spray, and there is a leaf and two small bunches of grapes on the top of the cover. The blue dip covers part of the foot and has run round the shoulder inside.
History note: Bonham's, London, 16 December 1903; bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8 cm
Length: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1765
CE
White salt-glazed stoneware coloured blue overall on the exterior is known as Littler-Wedgwood blue because William Pitt writing in 1817 and Samuel Shaw in 1829 associated it with William Littler and his brother-in-law, Aaron Wedgwood. Both were salt-glazed stoneware potters in the late 1740s, but from c. 1751 to 1760 Littler was making porcelain at Longton Hall, and by 1764 was doing so at West Pans in Scotland. There are several documentary references and advertisements mentioning blue ware during the 1750s. See Documention.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( coloured cobalt-blue)
Base
Diameter 5.8 cm
Body
Handle
Spout
white
Stoneware
Salt-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with a blue line border and a plant motif in the two top corners
Accession number: C.615 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75648
Old object number: 1966
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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