Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain teapot decorated with a scale blue ground, and reserves painted in blue, green, and red enamels and gold with chrysanthemums and wheatsheaves
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, with applied handle, spout, and knob, decorated with a blue scale ground, painting in blue, green, red, and black enamels, and gilded. The oval pot has a curving shoulder, an upward tilting spout, and a harp-shaped handle with a rounded kick at the lower end. The oval cover is slightly domed and has a ventilation hole and an oval urn-shaped knob. The pot and cover are decorated with scale blue grounds, and reserves framed by gold scrolls and oval beads. Both sides of the pot have a large shaped reserve, one containing Japanese-style flowers and wheatsheaves, and the other flowers and an insect. On either side of these there are narrow shaped reserves containing a flowering plant, and on the shoulder, two smaller triangular reserves containing half a flower and foliage. There is an oval reserve containing a floral spray under the spout. The cover is decorated to match. The back of the handle is painted in gold with a feathery leaf, and there are gold bands round the mouth, foot, and end of the spout, and round the edge of the cover and knob, which also has strokes of gold radiating from its apex.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Professor Shon Ffowcs-Williams
Height: 12 cm
Length: 18.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2016-01-25) by Ffowcs-Williams, Shon
18th Century, Late
Flight Period (1783-92)
Circa
1783
CE
-
1789
CE
The stylized chrysanthemums and wheatsheaves were among the most common motifs used in Worcester Japan patterns
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, green, red, and black) ground colour ( blue) gold
clear
Glaze
presumed steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with underglaze blue ground colour, reserves painted in blue, green, red, and black enamels, and gilding
Glazing
Accession number: C.718 & A-2016
Primary reference Number: 208409
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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