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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Teapot and cover, creamy-buff earthenware, blue-green crazed pearl-glaze, globular body, waisted with the upper section moulded with flutes, scroll-shaped spout (the end ground down), loop handle with moulded acanthus leaf thumb-rest, shallow neck, fluted dome cover with ball finial; printed in underglaze blue with the 'precarious chinaman' pattern on both sides, comprising a large figure in a conical hat reclining in front of a lattice fence enclosing him on three sides, a boy and a large pot of peonies and foliage behind; a smaller chinaman in a plumed hat holds a large parasol over his head, another boy in the foreground; at the shoulder a border of quatrefoils interspersed with large conventional semi-circular blossoms and with lappets below; repeated, together with detached flower sprays, on the cover; upper surface of spout bears a fern springing from three florets, spray of bluebells below; fern motif repeated on the handle.
