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Production: Unidentified (Possibly)
Pearlware teapot and cover, part of a set with two cups and saucers, transfver-rpinted underglaze blue with landscapes and floral borders.
White earthenware transfer-printed under slightly blue-tinted glaze (pearlware). The pot has a globular body with a short cylindrical neck, straight sloping spout, and strap handle, and stands on a footring. The circular domed cover has flange which fits inside the neck of the pot, a ventilation hole in the top, and a ball-shaped knob. Both sides of the pot are decorated with the same transfer-print of a landscape in which on the right is a cottage beside two trees; in the middle, a pond in which two cows are standing; two people in the distance; another tree on the left; and distant hills. On the shoulder, and around the ecdge of the cover there is a floral border.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs F. R. Leavis
Height: 8.8 cm
Length: 15.3 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: Given (1976-04-22) by Leavis, F. R., Mrs
Early 19th Century
George III
Circa
1800
CE
-
1810
On accession attributed doubtfully to Liverpool
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Foot
Diameter 6 cm
Body
bluish
Lead-glaze
white
Earthenware
Accession number: C.7 & A-1976
Primary reference Number: 75857
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/75857 Accessed: 2023-03-30 20:11:47
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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