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Factory: Spode
Bone china, moulded, glazed, painted with birds and flowers in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Bone china, painted underglaze in blue, and onglaze in pale blue, green, yellow, pink, red, pale brown, and grey enamels, and gilt. Small ovoid body with a curved shoulder, facetted spout and ear-shaped handle with a kick at the lower end. The circular cover has a globular knob. The body of the pot is decorated with panels of birds in landscapes reserved in a wide band of blue ground, with gold floral sprays between them. Below on each side there is an Oriental bird on the left of a rock, flowering plants and heaps of fruit in a tray. The shoulder is encircled by a continuous spray of narrow gold leaves and berries. The spout and the back of the handle are gold overall and there are gold bands round the foot, shoulder and mouth. The cover has two shaped panels of a bird in a landscape reserved in a blue ground with gold floral sprays between them. There is a gold band round the edge and the knob is gold overall.
History note: Unknown before Miss Jessie Holland
Bequeathed by Miss Jessie Holland
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
Length: 16.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1970-04-30) by Holland, Jessie
19th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) gold
Moulding
: Bone china, painted in enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.2 & A-1970
Primary reference Number: 40632
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 (2024) "Teapot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/40632 Accessed: 2024-11-20 07:25:33
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