Teapot
Category
Brassware
Date
1890 - 1904
Materials
gilt, silver, brass & copper
Measurements
340 mm (H); 320 mm (W); 200 mm (D)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 107379
Summary
A Tibetan copper teapot with silver mounts with gilt. It has a dragon handle and a makara spout (a mythical animal with the trunk of an elephant, the head of a lion and the body of a crocodile). '[A silver-mounted copper teapot] Another, partly gilt' (Christie's entry)
Provenance
Purchased in 1986 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund from Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000). Gifted to the National Trust in 1987 by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.