Description:
English creamware pear-shaped coffee pot with a domed cover, which is impressed "WEDGWOOD" on the underside of base. The lid has a molded rose knop over a molded stem with leaves and a bud, and engine-turned vertical fluting around the lower half. The pot has a snip-style spout with engine-turned vertical fluting around its botton half; engine-turned vertical fluting around the botton half of the pot; attached double entwined, strap handle with two upper foliate terminals and two lower curled ends; and a molded spreading foot. According to Roger Massey, a number of embellishments to 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 both Reilly and Towner, this form of rose knop was used extensively by Wedgwood from about 1768 and does not appear on the creamwares of any other contemporary factory; and the handle appears on Wedgwood creamwares from about 1765 to 1790. Versions of this teapot design were produced by a number of creamware potteries, including Leeds, Don, and Whitehead.
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