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Teapot and cover
Teapot and cover, mixed or duck egg paste with slight green translucency; London shape with rectangular bulbous body swelling from the foot and into the wide shoulder; square shouldered loop handle with pinched thumb spur and lower inner spur; curving spout moulded with flutes at the base and with scrolls at the top; plateau-shaped lid with rounded pyramid finial; decorated with an underglaze blue band bearing red and white stylised chrysanthemum heads and gilt foliage and reserved with three ovals of flowers on a white ground; band of gilt foliage at the shoulder; handle and spout partly gilded; cover edged with blue band painted with gilt foliage flowers and fence within, below finial
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32558
Acquisition
Gift, 20/1/1995
Given by Vernon D. Thorne
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15
Length
(cm): 26.5
Width
(cm): 13.3
Height
(in): 5
Length
(in): 10
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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