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Teapot and cover
Teapot, pale cream-coloured earthenware with a soft greenish-yellow tinge to the glaze, rounded foot-rim, globular body, narrow rounded lip-rim, curving spout with moulded acanthus leaves around the base, reeded double intertwined handle with moulded flower heads and leaves at the terminals, round domed cover with to the centrea finial modelled in the form of a flower head, a pierced steam hole to one side; bat-printed in black with to one side of the exterior body of the teapot a garden scene with a female figure and two children, to the other side a landscape with three perching birds, around the top of the cover two vignettes of birds. The tip of the spout broken off, the rim of the cover slightly chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35756
Acquisition
Bequest, 1929
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 12.3
diam
(cm): 12
Width
(cm): 19.4
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 7
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
glaze
Location
In store
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