Description:
English salt-glazed stoneware, globular-shaped teapot with vertical lines in molded relief surrounding the pot. The circular inset lid has two relief putti, with a green ribbon border and green toadstool knop. The pot has a molded water serpent handle in brown and green; a molded spout with abstract leaf pattern in relief; two large reserves with molded low relief scenes of King George III (1738-1820), who reigned from 1760-1820, and his wife, Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) whom he married in 1761, seated on either side of an alcove-shape, with two putti and an angel overhead, in pink, purple, green and yellow. The molded low relief grasses or leaves in green form a lower border above the out-turned, applied flat foot. Although Staffordshire white stoneware had been perfected by about 1720, its possibilities for mass-production were not fully exploited until the 1740s. Then the techniques of press-moulding, slip-casting and enamelling were developed, and the drabness of the greyish stoneware surface was successfully relieved by the addition of all-over decoration. Colorfully painted stoneware using enameled decoration was being produced in Staffordshire by the mid 1750. Since these pieces required a second firing to fuse the enamels onto the glazed surface, these wares were more expensive than white stoneware. Block mold for this teapot (positive stoneware mold for making plaster of paris negative molds) is owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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