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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Teapot and Cover

ca. 1755-1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Teapot and cover of cream-coloured earthenware decorated with sponged underglaze pigments. Squat globular, with crabstock handle, spout, and flower head finial, decorated with applied moulded rosettes/flower heads and with meandering plant stems.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Teapot Body
  • Teapot Cover
Materials and techniques
Cream-coloured earthenware, with applied moulded decoration, decorated with sponged pigments under a lead glaze
Brief description
Teapot and cover, cream-coloured earthenware, with applied moulded decoration and decorated with sponged underglaze pigments, possibly Thomas Whieldon's factory, Staffordshire, ca. 1755-1765
Physical description
Teapot and cover of cream-coloured earthenware decorated with sponged underglaze pigments. Squat globular, with crabstock handle, spout, and flower head finial, decorated with applied moulded rosettes/flower heads and with meandering plant stems.
Dimensions
  • Conversion from imperial height: 10cm
  • Conversion from imperial diameter: 12cm
Production
See D. Barker and P. Halfpenny, Unearthing Staffordshire (1990), cat. 22, for another of this pattern attributed to Thomas Whieldon's factory (and dated ca. 1755) by comparison with fragments excavated from his factory site at Fenton Vivian.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.369-1923

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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