Teapot and cover, creamware, cylindrical body with inset base, loop handle, tapering spout, low domed cover with flange and pierced globular knop; painted on one side with the inscription 'Margt; Kirkhouse / 1788' with flowers sprigs, a scalloped band and grass motifs, on the other side with a chinoiserie landscape, scrolled bands with a blue ground round the shoulder and cover, grass motifs on the cover, a flowerhead on the underside of the spout.
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Creation/Production
1780 - 1790
Role: Pottery
Place: Swansea
Period: 1788
Acquisition
Gift, 27/6/2023
Measurements
Height
(cm): 14.9
Length
(cm): 23
diam
(cm): 10.9
Height
(in): 5
Length
(in): 9
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
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Turned
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Extruded
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Assembled
Forming
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Underglaze blue
Decoration
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Painted
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Glazed
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