Yorkshire or Staffordshire teapot with a lady beside a tomb

An image of Teapot and cover. Unidentified Yorkshire Pottery or Staffordshire Pottery, England. Painted in red and black enamels with a lady beside a tomb, inscribed 'Solitude/is my/Choice'. The cylindrical body has horizontal bands of rope-like rouletting round the base, shoulder and neck. The spout is moulded in relief with a sprays of foliage and with leaves round its junction with the body. Inside there are seven pierced holes to emit the tea. The two entwined double twist handles have flower and leaf terminals. The domed cover has a ventilation hole, and a band of rouletting round the edge. The applied knob is in the shape of a convolvulus flower with a small flower head and leaf terminal behind it, and a leaf with small flowers in front of it. One side of the pot is decorated in black and red with a bird flying towards a lady seated pensively beside a tomb on which are the words 'Solitude/is my/Choice' , On the other side there are Italianate buildings in a landscape with two trees. The shoulder has four sprays of stylized flowers and foliage. The termals of the handle are painted in blue, green, and yellow. The cover is decorated with similar buildings and schematic flying birds. The knob and its terminals are painted to match those on the handle. Dark cream-coloured earthenware, with applied handle and moulded spout, knob, and terminals, and rouletted borders, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and black enamels. Height, whole, 13 cm, length, whole, 19.7 cm, diameter, body, 10 cm, circa 1770-1775. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through the Art Fund.

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Teapot and cover. Unidentified Yorkshire Pottery or Staffordshire Pottery, England. Painted in red and black enamels with a lady beside a tomb, inscribed 'Solitude/is my/Choice'. The cylindrical body has horizontal bands of rope-like rouletting round the base, shoulder and neck. The spout is moulded in relief with a sprays of foliage and with leaves round its junction with the body. Inside there are seven pierced holes to emit the tea. The two entwined double twist handles have flower and leaf terminals. The domed cover has a ventilation hole, and a band of rouletting round the edge. The applied knob is in the shape of a convolvulus flower with a small flower head and leaf terminal behind it, and a leaf with small flowers in front of it. One side of the pot is decorated in black and red with a bird flying towards a lady seated pensively beside a tomb on which are the words 'Solitude/is my/Choice' , On the other side there are Italianate buildings in a landscape with two trees. The shoulder has four sprays of stylized flowers and foliage. The termals of the handle are painted in blue, green, and yellow. The cover is decorated with similar buildings and schematic flying birds. The knob and its terminals are painted to match those on the handle. Dark cream-coloured earthenware, with applied handle and moulded spout, knob, and terminals, and rouletted borders, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and black enamels. Height, whole, 13 cm, length, whole, 19.7 cm, diameter, body, 10 cm, circa 1770-1775. Rococo. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through the Art Fund.

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Accession Number: C.35 & A-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 764 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 463.00kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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18th Century _WF_ArtFund _WF_Batchelor applied beaded beading birds Convolvulaceae Convolvulus cover creamware cylindrical domed domes Early Rococo earthenware enamel enamelled English female Fitz_AA floral flowers foliage foliate Georgian glazed graves gravestone green handle handled inscribed inscriptions Ipomoea knob lady lead-glazed lidded Morning Glory moulded pottery reeded reeds Rococo roulette rouletted rouletted beading solitude spout spouted spray sprays Staffordshire Pottery tableware taking tea teapot teapots teaware tombs vessel woman Yorkshire Pottery

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