Tea Bottle
ca. 1725-1730 (made)
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By the 1720s tea drinking was becoming more widespread. The trade was expanding quickly, and the price was falling accordingly. Thus the Staffordshire potteries began to make cheap earthenware and stoneware teapots. This marked the start of an industry that would blossom within a few decades. It would create some very wealthy potters, such as Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware, cut, rouletted and sprigged decoration, red-brown slip |
| Brief description | Salt-glazed stoneware tea bottle with applied sprig decoration, Staffordshire, about 1725-30 |
| Physical description | Salt-glazed stoneware moulded tea bottle of octagonal oblong shape, dipped in white engobe, with cut, rouletted and sprigged decoration of birds, flowers and leaves, the top dipped in red-brown slip. |
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| Gallery label | Tea canuster
Made in Staffordshire, about 1730
Salt glazed stoneware, with mould-applied decoration
C.2-1994(23/05/2008) |
| Summary | By the 1720s tea drinking was becoming more widespread. The trade was expanding quickly, and the price was falling accordingly. Thus the Staffordshire potteries began to make cheap earthenware and stoneware teapots. This marked the start of an industry that would blossom within a few decades. It would create some very wealthy potters, such as Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795). |
| Bibliographic reference | Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X |
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| Accession number | C.2-1994 |
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| Record created | November 29, 2002 |
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