Description:
English creamware baluster-shaped teapot and domed cover with a molded convolvulus knop over an elaborate terminal with a small leaf running up the base of the knop, flower, four scrolling leaves on a long stem extending to the rim edge; engine-turned vertical fluting; and a rouletted bead rim edge. The pot has a concave neck; two beaded bands bordering the plain upper body and vertical engine-turned fluting around the lower body; a molded spreading foot with a beaded rim edge; an attached S-shaped spout with an enfolding acanthus leaf around the base; and an attached double entwined rope-twist handle with flower, bud and leaf terminals. According to Roger Massey, a number of embellishments producing plain creamware emerged in the 1760s and 1770s such as the use of engine turnings in the 1760s with the introduction of the engine-turned lathe (Josiah Wedgwood claimed to have introduced the engine-turning process to the pottery industry in 1763) and pierced decoration in the 1770s. According to Donald Towner, the form of this teapot's spout and handle with its terminals were used by both Leeds and Melbourne Potteries. Early excavations at the Melbourne site indicated that creamware was manufactured 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. Condition: Small crack to foot.
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