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Tea Warmer

ca. 1828 (made)
Artist/Maker
Minton (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Stoke-on-Trent (made)

Tea-warmer and cover with a spirit lamp and cover of bone china painted with enamels and gilded. Of depressed globular form with cylindrical projection fitting into the stand.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Bone China
Object type
Tea warmer
Parts
This object consists of 6 parts.

  • Body; Food Warmer
  • Base; Food Warmer
  • Teapot ; Food Warmer
  • Pot Cover ; Food Warmer
  • Reservoir ; Food Warmer
  • Wick Holder ; Food Warmer
Materials and techniques
Bone china painted with enamels and gilded
Bone China
Enamels
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Tea-warmer and cover with a spirit lamp of bone china painted with enamels and gilded, Minton & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1828.
Physical description
Tea-warmer and cover with a spirit lamp and cover of bone china painted with enamels and gilded. Of depressed globular form with cylindrical projection fitting into the stand.
Dimensions
  • Body height: 12.7cm (Note: C.601-1935)
  • Body diameter: 11.7cm (Note: C.601-1935)
  • Base height: 4cm (Note: C.601A-1935)
  • Base diameter: 11.3cm (Note: C.601A-1935)
  • Teapot height: 11cm (Note: C.601B-1935)
  • Teapot width: 12cm (Note: C.601B-1935)
  • Teapot depth: 9cm (Note: C.601B-1935)
  • Pot cover height: 4.2cm (Note: C.601C-1935)
  • Pot cover diameter: 5.8cm (Note: C.601C-1935)
  • Reservoir height: 2.6cm (Note: C.601D-1935)
  • Reservoir diameter: 7.5cm (Note: C.601D-1935)
  • Wick holder height: 2.5cm (Note: C.601E-1935)
  • Wick holder diameter: 6cm (Note: C.601E-1935)
  • Whole height: 27.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
The shape appears in the Minton Pattern Book, No. 40 as 'Night Lamp'.
Subjects depicted
Landscape
Diaper
Scrolls
Bibliographic reference
Aslin, Elizabeth and Atterbury, Paul, Minton, 1798-1910 , London, H.M.S.O., 1976
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.601 to E-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O306950/tea-warmer-minton/
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