Worcester Porcelain Factory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, painted with flowers in onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, painted with onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt. The globular teapot has a curved spout and ribbed loop handle, supported on a low footring. The slightly domed cover has an open flower knob with two leaf terminals. Each side is painted in red, green, purple and 'dry-blue', with a large bouquet surrounded by smaller scattered flower sprigs, on a yellow ground; the handle and spout with purple trefoils above gilt scrollwork; the neck with a gilt wavy line between two gilt bands. The cover is decorated en suite, with naturalistically coloured flower knob.
Given by Miss E.M. Furlonge
Height: 15.5 cm
Length: 19.0 cm
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.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1958)
by
Furlonge, E. M.
Mid-18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, green, purple and 'dry-blue') gold
presumed lead Lead-glaze steatitic Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, painted with onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt
Accession number: C.8 & A-1958
Primary reference Number: 36858
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Teapot"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/36858 Accessed: 2022-06-25 11:11:46
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