Description:
Straight-sided cylindrical teapot decorated with molded flutes, pierced gallery rim, made of lead-glazed, cream-colored earthenware (creamware), entwined strap handles with floral terminals, fluted round stand with short sides, scalloped edge, and domed, fluted cover with acorn finial. Each piece fluted with panels of narrow triple flutes and wider single flutes, all terminating in a scalloped and barbed rim pierced with small hearts and triple dots on the teapot, the fluted spout with foliate molding at the base, the entwined strap handle with bud-sprig terminals, and the knop of fluted acorn shape. Condition: The teapot with a hair crack, some chips, and repair on the spout tip; the cover and stand with repaired chips, and the cover with slight speckling. Label on base for "Gander & White" Outside experts thought this teapot was probably made at Melbourne, Derbyshire, circa 1775. Early excavations at the Melbourne site in Derbyshire indicated that creamware was manufactured there for 20--25 years, starting in the early 1760s and stopping before 1785. But these isolated fragments were not kiln wasters and there is no evidence for a Melbourne manufactory of creamware at this time.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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