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Teapot and cover
Billinge, Thomas - Enlarge image
Teapot and cover
- Place of origin:
Liverpool, England (printed)
Etruria, England (made) - Date:
ca. 1774 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Billinge, Thomas (engraver)
Wedgwood (manufacturer)
Sadler and Green (printer) - Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:1109/&A-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain, room 138, case I, shelf 5
Physical description
Teapot and cover of earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel.
[Teapot] Teapot, oval in shape and moulded in four wavy lobes, with a spreading foot and loop handles. On one side is a half-length portrait between rococo scrolls inscribed 'JOHN WILKES ESQR. THE PATRIOT' flanked by small seated figures of Liberty, holding a wreath and a cap on a staff and leaning against a pedestal inscribed 'Magna Charta', and Britannia. On the other side is an allegorical subject of a young man approaching Liberty represented as a woman swooning into the arms of Wilkes robed as Lord Mayor of London, her pike and cap and a scroll inscribed 'MAGNA CHARTA BILL OF RIGHTS' on the ground, and a shield bearing the Union Jack beside her.
[Cover] Cover with a knob in the form of a fig and decorated with scattered sprays of fruit and flowers.
Place of Origin
Liverpool, England (printed)
Etruria, England (made)
Date
ca. 1774 (made)
Artist/maker
Billinge, Thomas (engraver)
Wedgwood (manufacturer)
Sadler and Green (printer)
Materials and Techniques
Earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel
Marks and inscriptions
[Teapot] 'JOHN WILKES ESQR. THE PATRIOT'
[Teapot] 'MAGNA CHARTA BILL OF RIGHTS'
Dimensions
Height: 13.9 cm, Diameter: 12.7 cm
Descriptive line
Teapot and cover of earthenware, transfer-printed in black enamel by Sadler and Green in Liverpool, portrait engraved by T. Billinge, made by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Etruria, ca. 1774.
Materials
Earthenware
Techniques
Transfer-printed
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Fruit; Wreath; Britannia; Union Flag; Liberty; Mayor; Wilkes, John
Categories
Ceramics; Earthenware
Collection code
CER
