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Teapot and cover
Teapot, hard-paste porcelain, standing on a short cylindrical foot-rim, bulbous ovoid body with short cylindrical neck, curving spout, ear-shaped loop handle, round domed cover with to the top a finial modelled in the form of a flower bud with a stem and leaves; finely painted in polychrome enamels with to either side of the exterior body of the teapot a landscape with red-roofed buildings by the side of a river, one with two figures in the foreground, to the top of the cover three floral sprigs in puce, gilt bands around the lower body and exterior lip-rim of the teapot, a gilt dentil edge to the rim of the cover, the spout and handle picked out in gilt, the flower bud finial picked out in gilt.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35571
Creation/Production
Ansbach State Factory
Date: 1780-1790
Acquisition
Gift, 6/2/1922
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 10.4
diam
(cm): 8.5
Width
(cm): 14
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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