Description:
English white salt-glazed stoneware, slip-cast, relief-molded teapot with a lobed, quatrefoil body with vertical sides, curved spout, hand-rolled loop handle with a pinched terminal, and flat base. The quatrefoil lid, which sits on the rim, has a toadstool-shaped knop over six molded shells and a plain rim. The sharp shoulder is encircled by a low relief floral and key band; over three overlapping pectin shells surrounded by a fret pattern on the center lobes the two sides; and flanked by molded sprigs of oak leaves and acorns on the other two lobes. According to Peter Walton, this combination of molded pecten shells, acorn and oak leaves has been associated with pieces by Ralph Wood. 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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