Teapot: C.719 & A-2016

Maker(s)

Factory: Worcester Royal Porcelain Company

Entities

• Teapot
• Cover

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain
• Teaware

Description

Bone china teapot with fluted body, transfer-printed with bouquets and floral sprigs, and gilt. Roanoke pattern.

Creamy-white bone china, slip-cast with applied spout, handle and knob, glazed and decorated with a multicolour transfer-print in blue, green, yellow, pink, dark pink, red, and purple. The globular body stands on a footring, and has a short cylindrical neck, a slightly curved fluted spout, and a D-shaped handled with a longitudinal ridge. The domed and fluted cover has a fluted cone-shaped knob, and a deep flange which fits inside the neck of the pot. Both sides of the pot are decorated with an arrangement of mixed flowers and two small floral sprigs above on the shoulder. There is one floral sprig on the underside of the spout. There is a gold stroke down the back of the handle and gold bands round the foot, neck, junction of spout and body and the tip of the spout. The cover has one large floral arrangement and three floral sprigs. There is a gold spot on the apex of the knob, and a gold band round its junction with the body, and round the outer edge.

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by Professor Shon Ffowcs-Williams

Place(s) associated

• Worcester ⪼ Worcestershire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2016-01-25) by Ffowcs-Williams, Shon

Dating

20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date: circa AD 1955

Note

According to Godden, 1988, the mark on this pot was used between 1944 and 1955. Roanoke pattern had been discontinued by the date of accession. For a teaset of this pattern, see Bonham's Edinburgh, 10 September 2010, Selected Art and Antiques, lot 650A.