Domestic Furnishings

Tiffany Floor Lamp

Washboards, armchairs, lamps, and pots and pans may not seem to be museum pieces. But they are invaluable evidence of how most people lived day to day, last week or three centuries ago. The Museum's collections of domestic furnishings comprise more than 40,000 artifacts from American households. Large and small, they include four houses, roughly 800 pieces of furniture, fireplace equipment, spinning wheels, ceramics and glass, family portraits, and much more.

The Arthur and Edna Greenwood Collection contains more than 2,000 objects from New England households from colonial times to mid-1800s. From kitchens of the past, the collections hold some 3,300 artifacts, ranging from refrigerators to spatulas. The lighting devices alone number roughly 3,000 lamps, candleholders, and lanterns.

Resource Type: Teapots

Meissen teapot and cover (Hausmaler)

TITLE: Meissen teapot and cover (Hausmaler)MAKER: Meissen ManufactoryPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: ceramic, porcelain, hard paste (overall material)MEASUREMENTS: 5¾" 14.6 cmOBJECT NAME: Teapot and coverPLACE MADE: Meissen, Saxony, GermanyDATE MADE: 1715-1720 MeissenSUBJECT: The Hans Syz
Description
TITLE: Meissen teapot and cover (Hausmaler)
MAKER: Meissen Manufactory
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: ceramic, porcelain, hard paste (overall material)
MEASUREMENTS: 5¾" 14.6 cm
OBJECT NAME: Teapot and cover
PLACE MADE: Meissen, Saxony, Germany
DATE MADE: 1715-1720 Meissen
SUBJECT: The Hans Syz Collection
Art
Domestic Furnishing
Industry and Manufacturing
CREDIT LINE: Hans C. Syz Collection
ID NUMBER: 1979.0120.09 a,b
COLLECTOR/ DONOR: 57 a,b
ACCESSION NUMBER:
(DATA SOURCE: National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center)
MARKS: None
PURCHASED FROM: Adolf Beckhardt, The Art Exchange, New York, 1941.
This teapot is from the Smithsonian’s Hans Syz Collection of European Porcelain. Dr. Syz (1894-1991) began his collection in the early years of World War II, when he purchased eighteenth-century Meissen table wares from the Art Exchange run by the New York dealer Adolf Beckhardt (1889-1962). Dr. Syz, a Swiss immigrant to the United States, collected Meissen porcelain while engaged in a professional career in psychiatry and the research of human behavior. He believed that cultural artifacts have an important role to play in enhancing our awareness and understanding of human creativity and its communication among peoples. His collection grew to represent this conviction.
The invention of Meissen porcelain, declared over three hundred years ago early in 1709, was a collective achievement that represents an early modern precursor to industrial chemistry and materials science. The porcelains we see in our museum collections, made in the small town of Meissen in Germany, were the result of an intense period of empirical research. Generally associated with artistic achievement of a high order, Meissen porcelain was also a technological achievement in the development of inorganic, non-metallic materials.
The teapot was made in the Meissen manufactory but painted outside by an independent artist. Hausmalerei is a German word that means in literal translation ‘home painting’, and it refers to the practice of painting enamels and gold onto the surface of blank ceramics and glass in workshops outside the manufactory of origin. Beginning in the seventeenth century the work of the Hausmaler varied in quality from the outstanding workshops of Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland), to the less skilled efforts of amateur artists. Hausmalerei was at first acceptable to the early porcelain manufactories like Meissen and Vienna, and Meissen sent blank porcelain to Augsburg workshops for decoration, but as the market became more competitive they tried to eradicate the practice. It was a temptation for Meissen porcelain painters to take on extra work as Hausmaler to augment their low pay, and the manufactory cautioned or even imprisoned them if Hausmalerei activity was suspected or discovered.
Franz Ferdinand Mayer (b. ca. 1727), active in Pressnitz (now Přísečnice in the Czech Republic) in the mid-eighteenth century, was a conventional painter, and probably ran a Hausmaler workshop as a sideline to his main occupation. The teapot has enamel color paintings after two allegorical engravings by the painter and engraver Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1708-1774). On one side we see the sense of taste as a young man raises a glass of wine while his female companion eats fruit. On the other side the sense of sight is depicted by a young woman admiring a portrait of a gentleman while a Harlequin is ready to mock from behind. The original series of four prints reveals a sharper and darker allegorical wit than the images on the teapot. Flowers painted in the style of woodcut prints of an earlier period, the so-called Holzschnittblumen and ‘shadowed’ insects appear on the cover.
Ducret, S., 1973, Keramik und graphik des 18. Jahrhunderts: Vorlagen für Maler und Modelleure, pp.141-144. See a plate with the same subject illustrated in Le Corbeiller, C., "German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century" in The Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, Spring 1990, Vol. XLVII No. 4, p. 33.
On Hausmaler see Ulrich Pietsch, 2011, Early Meissen Porcelain: The Wark Collection from The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, pp. 43-46.
Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert, 1979, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, pp.536-537.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1715-1720
maker
Meissen Manufactory
ID Number
1979.0120.09ab
catalog number
1979.0120.09ab
accession number
1979.0120
collector/donor number
57

Sèvres porcelain teapot (part of a service)

The teapot has elaborate decoration in gold and platinum on a deep blue-black ground.
Description
The teapot has elaborate decoration in gold and platinum on a deep blue-black ground. The body of the teapot has a stylized floral diaper pattern covering the surface with two gold-framed portraits of French writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne and the poet Francois de Malherbe. The same diaper pattern is on the cover. A gold foliate border circles the shoulder of the teapot with platinum dots above and below; above the foot ring there is a fret pattern in gold and platinum. Gold bands finish the rims and foot ring on the pot and cover, with the handle and spout also heavily gilded.
All the five parts of this tea service have portraits in miniature of significant French Renaissance writers, poets, theologians, and historians. The writer and highly original thinker Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), the poet and literary critic Francois Malherbe (1555-1628) have their portraits on this teapot. The most likely source for the portrait of Montaigne is a print (1774) by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807) after an earlier painting of the French School. The portrait of Malherbe was copied by Sèvres artists, possibly from a print by Lucas Vorsterman after the painter Daniel Dumonstier (1574-1646), and this likeness was also a probable source for a painting of Malherbe by the French artist Robert Lefévre (1755-1830). Daniel Dumonstier was a court artist and a friend of Malherbe.
This teapot belongs to the Alfred Duane Pell collection in the National Museum of American History. Before Pell (1864-1924) became an Episcopalian clergyman quite late in life, he and his wife Cornelia Livingstone Crosby Pell (1861-1938) travelled widely, and as they travelled they collected European porcelains, silver, and furniture. Pell came from a wealthy family and he purchased the large William Pickhardt Mansion on 5th Avenue and East 74th Street in which to display his vast collection. The Smithsonian was one of several institutions to receive substantial bequests from the Reverend Pell which laid the foundation for their collections of European applied arts.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1811-1812
ID Number
CE.P-1061Aab
catalog number
P-1061Aab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Japanned, oval teapot with a rounded, circular cover topped by triple-scroll loop and a tapered strap handle opposite the straight, tapered spout placed low on the body, which is perforated at opening.
Description
Japanned, oval teapot with a rounded, circular cover topped by triple-scroll loop and a tapered strap handle opposite the straight, tapered spout placed low on the body, which is perforated at opening. Semi-impasto painted decoration features a left-leaning red tulip with white overstrokes and yellow crosshatching across its open center on a green stem surrounded by green and yellow leaflets. Pairs of delicate, yellow, opposing scrolls border top, while single opposing scrolls encircle base. Red rick-rack border on shoulder. Body and spout have soft-soldered lapped seams. Flat bottom has a projecting, folded edge. No marks.
Attributed to eastern New York, possibly the Albany area.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1800-1850
ID Number
DL.322631.02
catalog number
322631.02
accession number
322631

Teapot

Squat baluster-shape teapot with a slightly domed, hinged lid topped by a ring of floral scrolls, a matching cast floral rim and sprig decoration on its body in imitation of bright-cut engraving; flat bottom. C-curve handle has a scrolled acanthus sprig and conical struts.
Description
Squat baluster-shape teapot with a slightly domed, hinged lid topped by a ring of floral scrolls, a matching cast floral rim and sprig decoration on its body in imitation of bright-cut engraving; flat bottom. C-curve handle has a scrolled acanthus sprig and conical struts. S-curve spout with acanthus at lip and leafy scrolls at sides of wide ribbed base. Perforated convex strainer applied inside body at spout. Bottom underside struck incuse with a horizontal-banded circular mark for "BRISTOL (arched) / PLATE CO. (across center in band) / U.S.A. / QUADRUPLE PLATE (curved)" in sans serif letters above "357". Inside lid struck "24". From a four-piece tea service, DL*66.0275-.0278.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1890
ID Number
DL.66.0275
catalog number
66.0275
accession number
263347

Teapot

Spiral-lobed, globular teapot with bands of spiraled drops for the cylindrical neck and circular, flared foot. Flat-top, hinged lid is topped by a cast vertical melon shape. Cusped, C-curve handle is pinned into thin insulators and trumpet-shaped oval sockets.
Description
Spiral-lobed, globular teapot with bands of spiraled drops for the cylindrical neck and circular, flared foot. Flat-top, hinged lid is topped by a cast vertical melon shape. Cusped, C-curve handle is pinned into thin insulators and trumpet-shaped oval sockets. Body perforated at plain, shallow S-curve spout. Underside of flat bottom is struck incuse with concentric circular mark of "KANN BROS SILVER CO / BALTO. / QUADRUPLE / PLATE" next to "6 / 1133". Same numbers are scratched inside lid; inside upper half of hinge is stamped "IV".
Maker is Kann Bros. Silver Co. of Baltimore, MD; 1899-1913.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1910-1913
ID Number
DL.68.0203
catalog number
68.0203
accession number
274458

Sèvres porcelain teapot and cover

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1789
1788
ID Number
CE.P-1070ab
catalog number
P-1070ab
accession number
225282

Paris porcelain teapot

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
c.1810
ID Number
CE.P-1125ab
catalog number
P-1125ab
accession number
225282

Nyon porcelain teapot

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
c.1800
ID Number
CE.P-490Aab
catalog number
P-490Aab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
maker
Stubbs, Joseph
ID Number
CE.62.918Cab
catalog number
62.918Cab
accession number
171126

Teapot

Urn-shaped teapot, oval in section, on flared pedestal base with trumpet-shaped, hinged oval lid topped by a cast urn; one side of body is engraved with a shaded, foliate script "R".
Description
Urn-shaped teapot, oval in section, on flared pedestal base with trumpet-shaped, hinged oval lid topped by a cast urn; one side of body is engraved with a shaded, foliate script "R". Cast serpentine-lobed rim and reeded foot have leafy volutes springing from shells; chased and engraved pairs of leafy scrolls enclosing five-petaled flowers encircle incurved neck, body and base. Tight C-curve handle is pinned into thin, reeded ivory insulators and flared sockets. Body perforated at shallow S-curve spout. Underside of base struck incuse "STERLING" at one end, "3998/74" at the other, and with a diamond-quatrefoil-diamond motif along one side. From a seven-piece coffee and tea service, 1991.0352.01-.07.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1914
date presented
1914-02-22
ID Number
1991.0352.02
catalog number
1991.0352.02
accession number
1991.0352

Teapot

Circular, bowl-shaped teapot with wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid topped by a small button knop. Deeply incurved neck with stepped ogee-domed shoulder; smaller incurved pedestal base with with stepped ogee-domed circular foot.
Description
Circular, bowl-shaped teapot with wide-rimmed, bell-domed, hinged lid topped by a small button knop. Deeply incurved neck with stepped ogee-domed shoulder; smaller incurved pedestal base with with stepped ogee-domed circular foot. Black-japanned, spurred S- and C-curve handle is pinned into cylindrical sockets. S-curve spout has triangular lip, faceted face, and creased belly. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom struck with an incuse roman "X", "BOARDMAN / & HART" above "N YORK", both in raised roman letters in rectangles, and an incuse "N\o. 5".
Maker is Boardman & Hart, New York, NY, working 1828-1853. The Boardmans were a well-known family of pewtersmiths in Connecticut during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lucius Hart (1803-1871) apprenticed with Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) and was his partner in the New York branch of the business. Boardman & Hart manufactured pewter but, over time, produced less of it in favor of Britannia and block tin, which could be silver plated. (For a similar teapot in pewter marked "N\o. 4", see 1981.0081.01.)
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1828-1853
ID Number
DL.300859.0030
catalog number
300859.0030
accession number
300859

Meissen porcelain teapot (part of a service)

TITLE: Meissen teapot and cover from a tête à tête tea and coffee serviceMAKER: Meissen ManufactoryPHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: ceramic, porcelain, hard paste (overall material)MEASUREMENTS: 1 5/8 in x 15 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 40.005 cm x 26.035 cmOBJECT NAME: TrayPLACE MADE:
Description
TITLE: Meissen teapot and cover from a tête à tête tea and coffee service
MAKER: Meissen Manufactory
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: ceramic, porcelain, hard paste (overall material)
MEASUREMENTS: 1 5/8 in x 15 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 40.005 cm x 26.035 cm
OBJECT NAME: Tray
PLACE MADE: Meissen, Saxony, Germany
DATE MADE: 1805-1815
SUBJECT: The Alfred Duane Pell Collection
Domestic Furnishing
Industry and Manufacturing
CREDIT LINE: The Alfred Duane Pell Collection
ID NUMBER: CE*P-896A
COLLECTOR/ DONOR: Alfred Duane Pell
ACCESSION NUMBER: 225282
(DATA SOURCE: National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center)
MARKS: Crossed swords and a star in underglaze blue .
This teapot is from a Meissen tea and coffee service made for two people, and services of this kind for use at breakfast or for intimate meetings are known as têtê à têtê or cabaret services. Most interesting, however, are the enamel painted topographical images of Egyptian landscapes and antiquities, which date the service to the early nineteenth century after the publication of Dominique Vivant Denon’s Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte (Travels in Lower and Upper Egypt) in 1802.
In 1798 Denon traveled to Egypt as a member of Napoleon’s large team of scientists, engineers, artists, and scholars appended to the general’s army of about 20,000 troops who occupied Lower Egypt and chased the Mamluk Turks, then rulers of the country, into Upper Egypt. Known as the savants, these men studied and recorded all that they saw of both ancient and modern Egypt. As an artist, art collector, and antiquarian, Denon marveled at the sites of Egyptian antiquity and recorded in drawings everything that he could get down on paper while traveling with a battalion of the French army into Upper Egypt. His drawings, later engraved and published in the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte are still a valuable record of Egypt’s ancient sites before the archaeological excavations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the construction of the first and second Aswan Dams.
Napoleon’s campaign was not a military success, his fleet destroyed by the British at the Battle of Abū Qīr Bay near Alexandria on August 1, 1798, thus isolating the French army on land in Egypt and restoring British control over the Mediterranean Sea. His team of scientists, engineers and artists, however, were undoubtedly successful in bringing new knowledge of ancient Egypt to Europe and America. Denon’s Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte was a very successful publication and the spirited account of his experiences was soon translated into English and other languages. It is likely that the enamel paintings on this tea and coffee service were commissioned privately by someone who perhaps owned a copy of the Voyage. When compared with the original drawings there are differences in detail and composition, which was not unusual, but for the most part the Meissen painters were faithful to Denon’s record, which was not in color, unlike the rich polychrome enamels seen on the porcelain.
The parts of the service are molded in the severe, but nevertheless ornate, neoclassical style fashionable in designs of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With its origins in France artists and designers who worked in the neoclassical style took inspiration from ancient Roman and Greek art and architecture. Neoclassicism in its most ideologically pure form expressed a taste for elevated, didactic, and moral subjects in rejection of the court culture of the old regime prior to the French Revolution. In the German States, and especially in Berlin, the neoclassical style was favored by designers and architects.
The Island of Philae appears on one side of the teapot, and close to Philae is the first cataract of the Nile, depicted on the other side. The cataracts form a barrier of white water rapids, six in number, although there are several named smaller ones, and they are situated at intervals between Aswan in Upper Egypt and Khartoum in the Sudan: the second cataract was submerged following construction of the High Aswan Dam in the 1970s. For millennia the cataracts have hindered navigation on the river as they tumble over sharp granitic rocks as seen in the painting here. Few Europeans had reached the cataracts when Dominique-Vivant Denon recorded these sites on his journey with the French troops into Upper Egypt in 1798.
This service belongs to the Alfred Duane Pell collection in the National Museum of American History. Before Pell(1864-1924) became an Episcopalian clergyman quite late in life, he and his wife Cornelia Livingstone Crosby Pell (1861-1938) travelled widely, and as they travelled they collected European porcelains, silver, and furniture. Pell came from a wealthy family and he purchased the large William Pickhardt Mansion on 5th Avenue and East 74th Street in which to display his vast collection. The Smithsonian was one of several institutions to receive substantial bequests from the Reverend Pell in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Bob Brier, Napoleon in Egypt, exhibition catalog Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, New York: 1990.
Bob Brier, Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
James Stevens Curl, Egyptomania, the Egyptian Revival: a Recurring Theme in the History of Taste, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.
Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art 1730-1930, exhibition catalog, National Gallery of Canada with the Louvre, Paris, 1994.
Paul V. Gardner, 1956, 1966 (rev. ed.), Meissen and other German Porcelain in the Alfred Duane Pell Collection.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1805-1815
maker
Meissen Manufactory
ID Number
CE.P-896Bab
catalog number
P-896Bab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Compressed globular teapot having a squat, plain, incurved neck with heavy, cast floral rim above chased and repousse lobes alternating in width and scrollwork decoration; four cast paw feet attached to flat bottom set in.
Description
Compressed globular teapot having a squat, plain, incurved neck with heavy, cast floral rim above chased and repousse lobes alternating in width and scrollwork decoration; four cast paw feet attached to flat bottom set in. Matching, domed, hinged lid with flared edge is topped by a cast circular floral knob. Spurred C- and S-curve ivory handle is pinned into spiral-scrolled sockets. S-curve spout has elongated D-shaped lip, faceted face and round belly. Body perforated at spout. Bottom underside struck with an incuse serif "R" at center and incised "FF" in script. From a four-piece coffee and tea service, DL*387944A-D.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1835
ID Number
DL.387944B
catalog number
387944B
accession number
190331

Sèvres porcelain teapot (part of a service)

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1831
c. 1831
ID Number
CE.P-804Aab
catalog number
P-804Aab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Raised, oblong, apple-shaped teapot with a short, forward-set, concave neck and wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied oval foot ring. Inset, domed and flared, hinged lid is topped by an ebony oval button knop.
Description
Raised, oblong, apple-shaped teapot with a short, forward-set, concave neck and wide, everted, single-reeded rim on an applied oval foot ring. Inset, domed and flared, hinged lid is topped by an ebony oval button knop. Single-knuckled, C-curve handle is pinned into flared sockets. Body perforated at the shallow, S-curve spout. Shoulder is struck "GEBELEIN" twice to left of handle, while underside of slightly concave bottom has four marks, "H S" separated by an anvil in a rectangle above "STERLING", "1905" and "G"; lid is also struck "GEBELEIN" at inside edge. Part of a three-piece service, 1992.0601.001-.003.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1905
ID Number
1992.0601.001
catalog number
1992.0601.001
accession number
1992.0601

Teapot

Seamed, straight-sided oval teapot with flared shoulder and domed oval, hinged lid topped by cast acorns; flat bottom set in.
Description
Seamed, straight-sided oval teapot with flared shoulder and domed oval, hinged lid topped by cast acorns; flat bottom set in. Symmetrical bright-cut decoration on both sides features a pointed shield amidst festoons, one is engraved "MEA" in conjoined foliate script and the other "1859". Additional garlands and sprigs follow the bellied S-curve spout and right-angled handle, almost square in section, which is pinned into rounded insulators and C-curve sockets. Rollerwork and applied beading at lid, rim, shoulder, top and bottom of body, and base of spout. Body perforated at spout. Bottom underside is struck with four incuse marks for "GALE & WILLIS". Part of a three-piece tea service, DL*64.0138A-C.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1859
engraved date
1859
ID Number
DL.64.0138A
catalog number
64.0138A
accession number
250794

Worcester porcelain teapot, cover, and stand (part of a service)

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1785
ID Number
CE.P-850Aab
catalog number
P-850Aabc
accession number
225282

Meissen porcelain teapot and cover

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1790-1814
maker
Meissen Manufactory
ID Number
CE.P-1047Cab
catalog number
P-1047Cab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Small, Aesthetic-style, mixed metal teapot with applied decoration of maple leaves and a spiraling maple key on opposite sides of its apple-shaped body, and a beetle below the stubby conical spout; fixed, tall bracket handle has a smaller maple key at top front corner.
Description
Small, Aesthetic-style, mixed metal teapot with applied decoration of maple leaves and a spiraling maple key on opposite sides of its apple-shaped body, and a beetle below the stubby conical spout; fixed, tall bracket handle has a smaller maple key at top front corner. Inset circular cover is topped by a ribbed knop and small boss at edge. Flat bottom with four raised feet. Body perforated at spout. Bottom underside is fully marked with "TIFFANY & CO" struck incuse above pattern, order, and hammering and mounting design numbers.
Location
Currently not on view
Date made
1878
maker
Tiffany & Co.
ID Number
1984.0530.01
catalog number
1984.0530.01
accession number
1984.0530
catalog number
1984.0530.01 A, B

Chinese porcelain reticulated teapot

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
18th century
ID Number
CE.P-471ab
catalog number
P-471ab
accession number
225282

Teapot

Pear-shaped or "Queen Anne" teapot on three cast hoof feet, its body engraved with a pseudo-armorial device consisting of the serif letters "A K" inside a crowned, clipped-corner, pointed bottom shield surmounted by a standing bird facing left and flanked by wrigglework flowers;
Description
Pear-shaped or "Queen Anne" teapot on three cast hoof feet, its body engraved with a pseudo-armorial device consisting of the serif letters "A K" inside a crowned, clipped-corner, pointed bottom shield surmounted by a standing bird facing left and flanked by wrigglework flowers; serif letters "D B" lightly engraved at upper left and right. Low-domed, hinged lid topped by spool-shaped knop; spurred, wooden bracket handle pinned into conical sockets; and plain, S-scroll spout with flat, oval lip. Body perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom is stamped with a crowned "X" above maker's touch mark.
Maker is Frances Piggot of London, England; working 1736-1784.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1736-1784
ID Number
DL.71.0048
catalog number
71.0048
accession number
292444

Teapot

Conical teapot on shallow foot ring with a flared, hinged lid topped by cast circular knop, a slender S-curve, low-mounted spout and a tapered S-curve handle.
Description
Conical teapot on shallow foot ring with a flared, hinged lid topped by cast circular knop, a slender S-curve, low-mounted spout and a tapered S-curve handle. Body has relief bands of laurel leaves and berries at top and bottom, and an empty, chased and engraved laurel wreath reserve on one side; perforated at spout. Underside of flat bottom is struck incuse "QUADRUPLE PLATE" arched above a spider web with "W" in five-pointed star at its center, and "179" below.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1886 - 1928
ID Number
DL.366316
catalog number
366316
accession number
124063

Teapot

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
maker
Enoch Wood and Sons
ID Number
CE.62.873Iab
catalog number
62.873Iab
accession number
171126

Bone china teapot and cover, earthenware stand

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1808-1813
ID Number
CE.P-816abc
catalog number
P-816abc
accession number
225282

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