Factory: Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory (Possibly)
Soft-paste porcelain lavishly decorated in gold with leaves, and borders of wavy flowers and foliage
Soft-paste porcealin ( ? hybrid hard-paste porcelain), decorated with gilding. The nea oval shape teapot has a domed cover with a ventilation hole, and oval knob rising to a point. The sides below the shoulder are decorated with partly hatched and partly solid gold composite leaves, and the shoulder with a continuous wavy spray of flowers and foliage. There are bands of gilding round the foot, the edge of the shoulder and the rim; down the sides of the handle which also has a vertical line down its back; and on the edges of the spout and its lip. The underside of the spout is decorated with vertical lines alternating with lines of dots of graduated size, and on its top there are stylized flowers. The cover (A) is decorated to match and the top of its finial has stripes radiating from the apex. The stand (B)is oval with sloping sides and stands on a footring. It is decorated with a central oval gold band, and with composite leaves radiating inwards from the bottom of the sides, which are decorated with a continuous wavy spray of flowers and foliage between gold bands.
Given by Dame Anne Warburton
Method of acquisition: Given (2010-06-07) by Warburton, Anne, Dame
18th Century, Early#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1810
Attribution uncertain; possibly Chamberlain's Worcester
Decoration
composed of
gold
Teapot
Height 15 cm
Height 6 in
Length 24.3 cm
Length 9⅝ in
Stand
Height 2.5 cm
Height 1 in
Length 17 cm
Width 14.9 cm
Stamd
Length 7⅛ in
Sand
Width 5⅞ in
probably steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glaze
Accession number: C.120 & A & B-2010
Primary reference Number: 177306
Entry form number: 1038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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