IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76918 accession number: EC.25 & A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White salt-glazed stoneware painted overglaze in blue, green, pink, yellow and black enamels. The bulbous hexagonal body has an s-curved spout and a loop handle; on the lid is a twidyrf ribbed handle. The body and spout are moulded with serrated-edge leaves in relief. Sprigged to the body on either side of the handle are additional moulded vine leaves and grape-bunches. The teapot is painted in a bright sky blue except for the vine leaves, which are green, the grapes, which are purplish-pink, and the almost round reserves on each side of the teapot. The reserves have a dark purplish-pink border and contain, on one side of the teapot, a spray of flowers and, on the other, a vase of flowers. Two similar flower-filled, purplish-pink-bordered reserves decorate the lid. object type: Salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamels with a turquoise blue ground and floral decoration om reserves title: teapot NOTES ----- type: history note value: formerly in the collection of J. Henry Griffiths; later in the collection of Wallace Elliot and purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum on 20 May 1938 as Lot.94 in at the Wallace Elliot sale, Sotheby’s, from the Glaisher Fund LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased from the Glaisher Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76918 TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulded stoneware body, with applied moulded handle and spout and sprigged vine reliefs, salt-glazed and painted overglaze in turquoise-blue, green, pink, purplish-pink, yellow and black enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.5 CITATIONS -------- The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_25_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels