Teapot lid
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1814
Materials
Basaltware
Measurements
58 x 82 x 120 mm
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1395860.2
Summary
Black basalt-ware teapot lid. Teapot commemorating the Duke of Wellington's victory at Vittoria in 1813, with a lion spout and snake handle, and lid. c.1814. 'India, Portugal and Spain, Vittoria 21st June 1813', 'Viresque Acquint Eundo'. Companion to cream jug 1395861.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)