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Factory: Seth Pennington's Factory (Possibly)
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, moulded and painted in polychrome enamels in Chinese famille-rose export style.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, moulded and painted in red, green, blue, purple and pink enamels. The ovoid teapot is moulded with palm trees springing from a border of stiff leaves at the base, with similarly moulded spout and loop handle. The domed, similarly moulded cover has a conical knob. It is painted on each side in Chinese famille-rose export style with a rose spray within a floral medallion, with a pink scale border round the neck.
History note: From the Merton Thoms Collection, sold Christie's, 11th February 1910, part of lot 187, bought by S. Fenton, £5 15s 6d
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.8 cm
Width: 20.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late#
George III
Circa
1795
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, green, blue, purple and pink)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in red, green, blue, purple and pink enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3148 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 38041
Old object number: 3154, vol. 10
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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