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Teapot: C.616 & A-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood, Aaron (Possibly)

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Description

White stoneware, coated with blue slip, salt-glazed and painted in unfired colours with ‘japanned’ flowers; ‘Littler-Wedgwood blue’ ware

White stoneware, coated with blue slip, salt-glazed and painted with cold painted colours, including red and gold. The teapot has a globular body, a crabstock handle and spout with seven holes in the wall behind it to emit the tea, and a shallow circular cover with a globular knob pierced by a ventilation hole. Both sides of the body, the shoulder, and the top of the cover are decorated with flowers and foliage which have faded and worn partially away.

Notes

History note: Mr Marshall Box, Woodlands, 14 Magrath Avenue, Cambridge; sold to Stanley Woolston , Cambridge, from whom bought on 13 February 1923 for £15 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 10 cm
Length: 22 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

George II
George III
Circa 1750 CE - 1765 CE

Note

Blue salt-glazed stoneware appears to have been developed about 1749-50 by Aaron Wedgwood and William Littler, who were both salt-glazed stoneware potters in Burslem, but although brothers-in-law, not in partnership. Littler moved to Longton Hall to make porcelain in 1751, and remained there until 1760.

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of slip ( blue)
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Body
Handle
Spout

Materials used in production

Stoneware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.616 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75649
Old object number: 4097

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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