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Staffordshire gilded teapot with a bird finial

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An image of Teapot and cover. Unidentified Staffordshire Factory. Dark red earthenware, the body thrown, with applied moulded handle, spout, feet, and finial, and applied moulded sprigs, the whole covered with black lead-glaze, and partly gilded. The pot has a depressed globular body supported on three lion's mask and paw feet, a crabstock handle and spout, and a domed cover with a bird finial. Both sides of the body are decorated with a coiling vine-stem with bunches of grapes and foliage in relief, which have been oil gilded. Rococo. No dimensions on Adlib (07/2014).

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Teapot and cover. Unidentified Staffordshire Factory. Dark red earthenware, the body thrown, with applied moulded handle, spout, feet, and finial, and applied moulded sprigs, the whole covered with black lead-glaze, and partly gilded. The pot has a depressed globular body supported on three lion's mask and paw feet, a crabstock handle and spout, and a domed cover with a bird finial. Both sides of the body are decorated with a coiling vine-stem with bunches of grapes and foliage in relief, which have been oil gilded. Rococo. No dimensions on Adlib (07/2014).

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  • Accession Number: C.709 & A-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 770 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 130.83kB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1

Key words

18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Roccoco Rococo Staffordshire Pottery Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd birds black bunch of grapes cover earthenware finial fruits gilded gilt glazed globe globular gold (colour) grapes grapevine lead-glazed lidded lions moulded paws spout spouted sprig taking tea teapot teaware thrown vine leaves vines

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rgb(212,213,211), rgb(45,46,44), rgb(144,127,78), rgb(113,95,57), rgb(126,127,124), rgb(164,167,164), rgb(188,173,125), rgb(160,145,112), rgb(100,116,101), rgb(100,105,116), rgb(180,172,180)

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