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Factory: Seth Pennington's Factory (Possibly)
Soft-paste porcelain teapot, moulded and painted in polychrome enamels with floral decoration.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, and pink enamels. The sides of the ovoid teapot are moulded with palm trees, which spring from a stiff leaf border, with a curved moulded spout and loop handle. It is painted with six flower sprays below a red rococo scroll and florette border, the stiff leaves round the base edged and veined in naturalistic colours.
History note: From the Merton Thoms Collection, sold Christie's, 11th February 1910, part of lot 187, bought by S. Fenton, £5 15s 6d
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.0 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second half of 18th century
George III
Circa
1770
CE
-
1775
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, and pink)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, and pink enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3147-1928
Primary reference Number: 38016
Old object number: 3156, vol. 10
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/38016 Accessed: 2023-03-20 16:44:46
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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Accession Number: C.58B-1918
Accession Number: C.119-1932
Accession Number: C.3 & A-1836
Accession Number: C.58A-1918
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