Description:
Chinese export porcelain globular-shaped teapot with cover, a short, straight spout, and coil handle, decorated in blue, brown, black, white, green, red, and gilding. Both sides have the arms of Thornton impaling Conyers with the crest, "A lion's head erased purpure forged with a ducal coronet or" over the arms of Thornton, "Argent a chevron sable between three hawthorn trees proper" impaling Conyers, "Azure a maunch ermine." The Thronton family lived in Yorkshire for many centuries, and John Thornton, a wealthy merchant of Hull, erected a monument to his ancestors in Birkin Church. John died in 1731, leaving five sons - Robert (d.1747) and Godfrey lived in Clapham, near London, and were Bank directors. His daughter, Sarah, married William Wilberforce, a merchant of Hull and grandfather of William Wilberforce who campaigned for the abolition of slavery. Robert Thornton married Hannah Swynocke (whose arms are unrecorded but whose mother may have been a Conyers); it is not certain for whom this service was made. Their grandson, Henry, M.P. for Southwark, married Mary-Anne Sykes, daugher of Joseph Sykes, in 1796. Both the cover and pot rim are decorated with a band of gilt grapes and leaves; there are traces of gilding on the knop and lip of spout.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome; Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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