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On display at V&A South Kensington
Europe 1600-1815, Room 3

Teapot


Silver, Continental


Object details

Object type
Brief description
Silver, Continental
Gallery label
Teapot and sugar bowl 1732–33 Sometimes earlier designs and models for luxury objects were updated with naturalistic decoration in the fashionable Rococo style. This teapot and bowl have the restrained forms of an earlier style, but have been modernised with delicately cast festoons of flowers and leaves. The lid of the bowl features cockle-shells. France (Paris) By Jean-Baptiste de Lens Gilded silver; stained bone handle Museum nos. 4246:1&2-1856; 4271-1857 (09/12/2015)
Collection
Accession number
4271-1857

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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