Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, slip-cast small teapot with a globular body with high-relief decoration. These delicate vessels demanded refined deportment in serving and drinking small amounts of liquid during the tea ceremony and in refraining from finishing the beverage before the conversation ended. The circular inset lid has an acorn-shaped knop over relief decoration of a flower, leaves and vine. The pot is encircled with relief decoration of two impressed birds, flower, vines and fleur-de-lys; and has an applied curved; coil handle with two flat notches near its shoulder and terminating with a pinched terminal; an incised line around lower portion of body; and sits on three boot-shaped feet with masks on top. Fragments similar to the impressed birds and acorn-shaped knob have been found in excavations at the Town Road site in Palmer, Massachusetts. 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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