Teapot: C.1 & A-1995

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Factory: Wedgwood, Josiah
Decorator: Rhodes, David

Entities

Description

Cream-coloured earthenware, painted in green, yellow, pale purple, reddish-brown, and black enamel-colours. The pot has a globular body with moulded overlapping leaf spout and reeded and leaf-moulded handle. The circular, slightly domed cover has a pierced globular knob. One side of the pot is decorated with a gentleman leaning on a post in a landscape with a building on the left; on the other side with two buildings in a landscape; and on the cover with one building between trees.

Notes

History note: Probably from the collection of Sir Victor and Lady Gollancz; Sotheby's, 15 July 1975, Catalogue of Important English Pottery from the Well-Known Collection formed by the late Sir Victor and Lady Gollancz, p. 12, lot 41. Messrs A.F. Allbrook, Essex, from whommpurchased in April 1982 by the donors

Legal notes

Given by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor

Measurements and weight

Height: 13.6 cm
Length: 19.6 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

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.

Place(s) associated

Burslem ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England
London ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1995-01-23) by Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady

Dating

Late 18th century
George III
Circa 1770 CE - 1775 CE

Note

The shape of this teapot is similar to examples marked Wedgwood. The pot illustrates the style of enamel paintingnfound on much early Wedgwood creamware. It is characteristic of enamelling associated with Robinson and Rhodes, a firm of decorators at Leeds to whom Wedgwood was sending creamware by 1763. In 1768 David Rhodes, moved to London to work at Wedgwood's premises in Great Newport Street, which a year later was transferred to a new decorating studio in Chelsea. This teapot was probably enamelled there, rather than earlier at the Leeds decorating workshop, because the gentleman resembles one on a teapot in Norwich Castle Museum, whch can be dated to 1774 because it bears the inscription 'Success to Sir Charles Holte Esq.', who was elected as MP for Warwickshire in the Parliamentary election in that year. Jasper Robinson continued to decorate at Leeds until 1779.