English Delftware Cadogan teapot

An image of 'Cadogan' teapot. English Delftware. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, Lancashire or unidentified Bristol pottery. The base of the pot has an aperture through which it can be filled by means of a tube rising up the middle of the interior. On one side a man in European dress stands brandishing a spear or arrow in a landscape with a tree, small bushes and rocks. On the other side, a deer stands beside bamboos and rocks and above on the shoulder there is a large flower, flanked by small flower heads and wavy forms filled with small circles. The handle has floral decoration and there is a fern on the spout. The lid has a border matching that on the shoulder, and the knob is decorated with downward pointing leaves or petals. Buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, height, whole, 14.3 cm, circa 1740-circa 1760. Oriental Style. The term 'Cadogan' teapot is used to indicate a pot which is filled through an aperture in the base instead of by lifting the lid and filling from the top, but it did not come into use until the early 19th Century.

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'Cadogan' teapot. English Delftware. Unidentified Liverpool pottery, Lancashire or unidentified Bristol pottery. The base of the pot has an aperture through which it can be filled by means of a tube rising up the middle of the interior. On one side a man in European dress stands brandishing a spear or arrow in a landscape with a tree, small bushes and rocks. On the other side, a deer stands beside bamboos and rocks and above on the shoulder there is a large flower, flanked by small flower heads and wavy forms filled with small circles. The handle has floral decoration and there is a fern on the spout. The lid has a border matching that on the shoulder, and the knob is decorated with downward pointing leaves or petals. Buff earthenware tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, height, whole, 14.3 cm, circa 1740-circa 1760. Oriental Style. The term 'Cadogan' teapot is used to indicate a pot which is filled through an aperture in the base instead of by lifting the lid and filling from the top, but it did not come into use until the early 19th Century.

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Accession Number: C.1577-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 460.53kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2010:08:01 19:18:45

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18th Century animal animals blue and white Chinese Style Chinoiserie deer Delftware earthenware English English Delftware Fitz_AA Georgian glazed lidded Oriental Style Orientalism pottery taking tea teapot teapots teaware tin-glazed

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