Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware teapot with a relief-molded, rectangular slip-cast body in the shape of a house with three bays. The cover, which resembles a small turret, sits on the rim and has a metal chimney knop (replacing the original knop) and a chain connecting it to the handle. Both the cover and top of the body (roof) have a shingle or slate pattern; one long side has the English coat of arms over a man standing in the doorway on the top of a flight of stairs of the three-storied house; the opposite side has the English coat of arms over a man in doorway flanked by two taller soldiers standing in the doorway on the top of a flight of stairs of the three-storied house. The two ends have relief scenes of trees, birds, animals, human figures and the Hapsburg double-headed eagle crest. The molded spout has a dolphin's head at the tip and a molded shell at the base, and the coiled handle has two notches at the top of the curve. 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.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location); Stoneware Link to share this object record:
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