Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Teapot and cover

Teapot, hard-paste porcelain, rounded foot-rim, squat bulbous body, short curving spout with a moulded ribbon around the base, plain loop handle, round domed cover with reeding around the top and to the centre a nipple-topped finial; painted in red, blue and green enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the teapot spreading flowering conventional Chinese shrubs, a red chevron border in the Chinese style around the shoulder of the teapot and the rim of the cover.

Porcelain made at the Vezzi factory is rare and mostly confined to teawares.

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 35792

Creation/Production

Vezzi Porcelain Factory
Date: 1723-1725

Acquisition

Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton

Measurements

Height (cm): 6.9
diam (cm): 12.1
Width (cm): 15.8
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 4
Width (in): 6

Techniques

wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

hard-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze

Location

Front Hall, North Balcony : Case J

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